"contemn" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /kənˈtɛm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-contemn.wav , en-us-contemn.ogg Forms: contemns [present, singular, third-person], contemning [participle, present], contemned [participle, past], contemned [past]
Rhymes: -ɛm Etymology: From Middle English contempnen, from Old French contemner, from Latin contemnere (“to scorn”). See also contempt. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|contempnen}} Middle English contempnen, {{der|en|fro|contemner}} Old French contemner, {{der|en|la|contemno|contemnere|to scorn}} Latin contemnere (“to scorn”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} contemn (third-person singular simple present contemns, present participle contemning, simple past and past participle contemned)
  1. (transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt. Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (to treat or regard with contempt): արհամարհել (arhamarhel) (Armenian), презирам (preziram) (Bulgarian), пренебрегвам (prenebregvam) (Bulgarian), menyspreuar (Catalan), desdenyar (Catalan), 鄙夷 (bǐyí) (Chinese Mandarin), 鄙薄 (bǐbó) (Chinese Mandarin), halveksia (Finnish), halveksua (Finnish), verachten (German), בז (baz) (Hebrew), disprezzare (Italian), disdegnare (Italian), 蔑む (sagesumu) (Japanese), 見下す (mikudasu) (Japanese), 軽蔑する (keibetsu suru) (Japanese), 軽侮する (keibu suru) (Japanese), whakapu(w)heto (Maori), tokoreko (Maori), whakareko (Maori), whakamanioro (Maori), desdenhar (Portuguese), desprezar (Portuguese), презира́ть (prezirátʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian), пренебрега́ть (prenebregátʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian), попира́ть (popirátʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian), despreciar (Spanish), menospreciar (Spanish), förakta (Swedish), küçümsemek (Turkish), hor görmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-contemn-en-verb-MPHJiByf Disambiguation of 'to treat or regard with contempt': 82 18
  2. (law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling). Categories (topical): Law, Emotions
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: despise, scorn Derived forms: contemnible, contemningly, uncontemned Related terms: contemner, contemnor, contempt, contemptibility, contemptible, contemptibly, contemptuous

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The subject of the following History [...] is the unhappy Lives, and untimely Deaths, of that Unfortunate English King Edward the Second, and his two Favourites Gaveston and Spencer; for his immoderate love to whom, (Says Dr. Heylin) he was hated by the Nobles, and contemned by the Commons.",
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          "text": "The change which had so suddenly elevated Charles Stuart to the throne of his ancestors, and, from a poor, wandering, and powerless exile, made him one of Europe's most powerful monarchs, had taken the various courts where he had sojourned, neglected, if not contemned, completely by surprise.",
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      "word": "contemnor"
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    {
      "word": "contempt"
    },
    {
      "word": "contemptibility"
    },
    {
      "word": "contemptible"
    },
    {
      "word": "contemptibly"
    },
    {
      "word": "contemptuous"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], “The Preface”, in The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page A3, verso:",
          "text": "The subject of the following History [...] is the unhappy Lives, and untimely Deaths, of that Unfortunate English King Edward the Second, and his two Favourites Gaveston and Spencer; for his immoderate love to whom, (Says Dr. Heylin) he was hated by the Nobles, and contemned by the Commons.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 171:",
          "text": "The change which had so suddenly elevated Charles Stuart to the throne of his ancestors, and, from a poor, wandering, and powerless exile, made him one of Europe's most powerful monarchs, had taken the various courts where he had sojourned, neglected, if not contemned, completely by surprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “11”, in The Moon and Sixpence:",
          "text": "I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disdain",
          "disdain"
        ],
        [
          "little",
          "little"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ],
        [
          "contempt",
          "contempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "contempt of court",
          "contempt of court"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈtɛm/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛm"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "despise"
    },
    {
      "word": "scorn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "arhamarhel",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "արհամարհել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "preziram",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "презирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prenebregvam",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "пренебрегвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "menyspreuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "desdenyar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bǐyí",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "鄙夷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bǐbó",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "鄙薄"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "halveksia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "halveksua"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "verachten"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "baz",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "בז"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "disprezzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "disdegnare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sagesumu",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "蔑む"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mikudasu",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "見下す"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keibetsu suru",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "軽蔑する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keibu suru",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "軽侮する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "whakapu(w)heto"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "tokoreko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "whakareko"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "whakamanioro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "desdenhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "desprezar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prezirátʹ",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "презира́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prenebregátʹ",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пренебрега́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "popirátʹ",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "попира́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "despreciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "menospreciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "förakta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "küçümsemek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to treat or regard with contempt",
      "word": "hor görmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "contemn"
}

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