He was in a drunken humour — in a sullen humour — in a thoughtless and vilipending humour — in every humour but a fighting one. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On Georges intercourse with Amelia he put an instant vetomenacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens. ❋ Unknown (1917)
It has been my fate to receive a good deal more vilipending than (I hope) I deserve. ❋ Leonard Huxley (1896)
But to return to Mr. Romanes: however much he and Mr. Allen may differ about the merits of Mr. Darwin, they were at any rate not long since cordially agreed in vilipending my unhappy self, and are now saying very much what I have been saying for some years past. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Richard Hunt was summoned for certain articles implying contempt, and for vilipending his lordship's jurisdiction. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
No parasite of Maurice could more effectively pay his court and more confidently hope for promotion or reward than by vilipending Barneveld. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
Amelia he put an instant veto -- menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
I contemn too much the occupation by which I have thriven so well, and hints that I may easily lead other people to follow my opinion in vilipending my talents, and the use I have made of them. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
-- He was in a drunken humour -- in a sullen humour -- in a thoughtless and vilipending humour -- in every humour but a fighting one. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
But let none look upon what we have here said, to be a vilipending or rejecting of the free, lawful, and rightly constitute courts of Christ, for we do acknowledge such to have been among the first most effectual means appointed of God for preserving the purity and advanceing the power of reformation in the Church of Christ; the sweet fruits and blessed effects whereof, this Church hath sometimes enjoyed, and which we have been endeavouring and seeking after, and are this day longing for. ❋ Various (1876)
But, if any one will do me the favour to turn to the paper in which these passages occur, he will find that a considerable part of it is devoted to the exposure of the familiar trick of the "counsel for creeds," who, when they wish to profit by the easily stirred _odium theologicum_, are careful to confuse disbelief in a narrative of a man's act, or disapproval of the acts as narrated, with disbelieving and vilipending the man himself. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
On George’s intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto — menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"psychology;" and how he knew anything about the functions of the brain, except by that very "observation intérieure," which he declares to be an absurdity -- it seems probable that he would have found it hard to escape the admission, that, in vilipending psychology, he had been propounding solemn nonsense. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
They were in consequence the more anxious to urge on Peel to make an attack of some sort upon the Ministers in the House of Commons, and he gratified them by moving these amendments, and vilipending the Instructions. [ ❋ Charles Greville (1829)
