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Treated with disdain
Answer for the clue "Treated with disdain ", 9 letters:
contemned
Word definitions for contemned in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: contemn )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemn \Con*temn"\ (k[o^]n*t[e^]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contemned (-t[e^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Contemning (-t[e^]m"n[i^]ng or -t[e^]m"[i^]ng).] [L. contemnere, -temptum; con- + temnere to slight, despise: cf. OF. contemner.] To view or treat with contempt, ...
Usage examples of contemned.
He was laughed at and over, reviled, contemned, cashiered, threatened with lawsuits -- and yet stood in awe of, especially by students.
For what part of him could be contemned if he himself should be worshipped?
No one would be contemned, instead of there being just cause of displeasure given to the much greater number who are passed by in the worship offered to some.
Nor can we extenuate the valour of ancient Martyrs, who contemned death in the uncomfortable scene of their lives, and in their decrepit Martyrdomes did probably lose not many moneths of their dayes, or parted with life when it was scarce worth the living.
On the other hand, when they contemned liberty and urged that circumcision was necessary for justification, he resisted them, and would not allow Titus to be circumcised.
For, as he would not offend or contemn any one’s weakness in faith, but yielded for the time to their will, so, again, he would not have the liberty of faith offended or contemned by hardened self-justifiers, but walked in a middle path, sparing the weak for the time, and always resisting the hardened, that he might convert all to the liberty of faith.