1603 J. Davies Extasie in 237 I tooke her for some World-despising Dame.
1835 T. S. Fay I. xiv. 138 The lover, the quiet, shrinking, world-despising lover—the haunter of brooks, the feeder of birds.
2002 D. Rodier in R. B. Harris ii. 196 They also both reject the world-despising attitude implicit in the image.