Meaning of contemner | Babel Free

Definitions

One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.

Equivalents

Examples

“Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.”

“I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: / “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; / […] ””

“From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.”

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