What is "despisers"

Usage examples of "despisers".

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

Even in your folly and despising ye each serve your Self, ye despisers of the body.

But it is now too late to do so:- so your Self wisheth to succumb, ye despisers of the body.

Nor will they be able to defend themselves from the charge of such baseness, whilst they, by way of being despisers of glory, disregard the judgment of other men, seem to themselves wise, and please themselves.

These things being so, if the age itself of those who worshipped the goddess Juventas should be characterized by remarkable vigor, whilst her despisers should either die within the years of youth, or should, during that period, grow cold as with the torpor of old age.

For possibly-and certainly this is more credible-there were despisers of God among the descendants of the two sons, even before Babylon was founded, and worshippers of God among the descendants of Ham.

Then, with dishonest clamour, they assail us as enemies and despisers of the Fathers.

There were despisers of God, who, when they heard that sin abounded in order that grace might more abound, immediately inferred, "We will continue in sin that grace may abound" (Rom.

He there found himself no more at home, however, among those critics and despisers of the commonalty of the human race, than he had formerly felt among the objects of their scorn.

In matters connected with war he had learned much from the Romans, who, oppressors as they were and despisers of the gods of Britain, were skilled beyond all others in such matters.

I go not your way, all you despisers of the body, who call it "material".