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- noun rare A despising.
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- noun
despising
Etymologies
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Examples
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My "despisement" of the Roman Catholic Church, and all institutionalized religion, and my comment here, has everything to do with your attempts at defending the institution in your comments here.
Anti-Catholicism rears its ugly head at Bread n Roses Forum Suzanne 2006
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Could my feelings of despisement toward him ever be totally erased?
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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That despisement she felt all the way through to her spine.
All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002
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That despisement she felt all the way through to her spine.
All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002
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So: Are Canadians unaminous in their despisement* of the unarguably Canadian Nickelback?
CBC Radio 3 2009
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