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contemners

n. (plural of contemner English)

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For every man looketh that his companion should value him, at the same rate he sets upon himselfe: And upon all signes of contempt, or undervaluing, naturally endeavours, as far as he dares (which amongst them that have no common power to keep them in quiet, is far enough to make them destroy each other,) to extort a greater value from his contemners, by dommage.

They were Makin people, I believe, probably staunch heathens, contemners of the missionary and his works.