Read full poem →But grasshoppers are giants there :
Tbey, in their squeaking laugh, contemn
Us as we walk more low than cheni,
Dictionary Entry
To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. contemncontemn men
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Poetry examples for “contemn”
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Read full poem →And, with a charity sublime,
Contemn’d not those who did not love:
And I could not but feel that then
Read full poem →A heaven that God doth not contemn
With stars is like a diadem —
Read full poem →A visage stern and mild, where both did grow
Vice to contemn, in virtue to rejoice;
Amid great storms whom grace assurèd so
Read full poem →There is many a pang to pursue me:
They may crush, but they shall not contemn;
They may torture, but shall not subdue me;
Read full poem →Dooms me to loathe, at once, and dote on falsehood,
And idolize th' apostate I contemn.
If thou art more than the gay dream of fancy,
Read full poem →A visage stern, and mild ; where both did grow
Vice to contemn, in virtue to rejoice :
Amid great storms, whom grace assured so,