Despising

Word DESPISING
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Despising"

What do we mean by despising?

To regard with contempt or scorn.

To disregard or ignore.

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The word "despising" in example sentences

When he visiteth me for despising _their cause_, what shall I answer him for _despising mine_? ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

He shook his head, angry with himself that he should feel shame at the confession when his savage reasoning told him he was right in despising work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We also need to recognize that there is a dangerous boldness of great consequence in despising whatever we cannot understand. ❋ Unknown (2004)

No longer will he take his daily enjoyment in despising the wife of his bosom – because nature has decreed that she shall be the wife of his bosom and not the husband of some one else's. ❋ Unknown (1909)

They still fondled her with a child-like simplicity – these her almost grown-up sons; who had never been sent to school for a day, and had never learned from other sons of far different mothers, that a young man's chief manliness ought to consist in despising the tender charities of home. ❋ Unknown (1897)

It is therefore not me, but Christ, whom ye wrong: it is His patience that ye try in despising my admonitions, and derogating from my authority [Calvin]. ❋ Unknown (1871)

My dear Ida, I wish to encourage no young lady of the hoydenish age of thirteen, in despising nice dressing and pretty looks and manners; or in neglecting to pick up any little hints which she may glean in such things from older friends. ❋ Unknown (1869)

This shall abundantly satisfy all the hearty well-wishers to God's interest, who will be glad to see themselves mistaken in despising the day of small things. ❋ Unknown (1721)

That cut and paste of Shakespeare earlier should have read 'despising'. ❋ Lou Anders (2009)

The law prohibits murder and hate speech, but also harder-to-define offenses such as "despising" or "stirring up ill feelings." ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you knew in what an agonised state of humiliation I am sometimes, you would not suspect me of 'despising' you? ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

He was horrified at Job's words, which seemed to him full of rebellion and irreverence; and he made no allowance for the wild cries of an agonised heart when he solemnly warned the sufferer against 'despising' God's chastening. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

By "despising," Ithuel meant that he "hated"; the passion, perhaps, of all others, the most removed from the feeling described by the word he had used, inasmuch as it is not easy to elevate those for whom we have a contempt, to the level necessary to be hated. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

The line about "despising" tea, coffee, and tobacco is awesome in its own way, but it's not exactly the best first impression for a curious non-member. ❋ Robert Ricks (2010)

This involves learning a foreign language during the primary stages of education, when an individual has an insufficient knowledge of his mother tongue's culture, which may create problems such as despising the mother tongue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On a 100 point scale, "despising" would actually be a flat 0, or at best, a highly generous ❋ Unknown (2009)

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