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ContemptuousContemptuous Con*temp"tu*ous (?; 135), a.
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful;
haughty; insolent; disdainful.
A proud, contemptuous behavior. --Hammond.
Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm. --Macaulay.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of
the Jews. --Atterbury.
Syn: Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious;
insulting; contumelious.
Usage: Contemptuous, Contemptible. These words, from
their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously
interchanged, as when a person speaks of having ``a
very contemptible opinion of another.' Contemptible
is applied to that which is the object of contempt;
as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow.
Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates
contempt; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous
remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever
is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling,
an opinion, may be either contemptuous or
contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not
be contemptuous. Contemptuously
Contemptuously Con*temp"tu*ous*ly, adv.
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain;
despitefully.
The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and
used contemptuously. --Jer. Taylor.
Contemptuousness
Contemptuousness Con*temp"tu*ous*ness, n.
Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence;
haughtiness.
Meaning of Contemptu from wikipedia
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Contemptus mundi, the "contempt of the world" and
worldly concerns, is a
theme in the
intellectual life of both
classical Antiquity and of Christianity...
- De
contemptu mundi (On
Contempt for the World) is the most well-known work of
Bernard of Cluny. It is a 3,000
verse poem of
stinging satire directed against...
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Spirostreptus contemptus, is a
species of round-backed
millipede in the
family Spirostreptidae. It is
endemic to Sri Lanka. "Annotated
checklist of millipedes...
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Harpalus contemptus is a
species of
ground beetle in the
subfamily Harpalinae. It was
described by
Pierre François
Marie Auguste Dejean in 1829. "Harpalus...
- and in the same year
published his
first essay, Aristarchus, sive De
contemptu linguae Teutonicae,
which presented the
German language as
suitable for...
- last
words of
Jesus on the
cross in the
Latin translation of John 19:30.
contemptus mundi/saeculi
scorn for the world/times
Despising the
secular world. The...
- twelfth-century
French Benedictine monk, best
known as the
author of De
contemptu mundi (On
Contempt for the World), a long
verse satire in Latin. Bernard's...
- (On the
wretchedness of the
human condition), also
known as
Liber de
contemptu mundi, sive De
miseria humanae conditionis, is a twelfth-century religious...
-
translation of a
section of
Bernard of Cluny's
Latin verse satire De
Contemptu Mundi.
Richard Chenevix Trench included 95
lines from the
beginning of...
- by
acquiring the
knowledge of Brahman,
according to
Advaita Vedanta.
Contemptus mundi is the name
given to the
belief that the world, in all its vanity...
