"despisable" meaning in English

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          "text": "c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110,\nAnd forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable."
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          "ref": "1741, Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For Particular Friends: on the Most Important Occasions, London: C. Rivington, Letter 146, p. 203:",
          "text": "[…] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.",
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          "text": "1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297,\n“but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.”"
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