Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To express a disparaging or moan opinion of; slander; vilify; treat slightingly or contemptuously.
- To express disparaging opinions of a person; uso vilification.
Wiktionary
- v. To despise
- v. To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise.
WordNet 3.0
- v. belittle.
Etymologies
- From Middle English vilipenden, from Old French vilipender, from Latin vilipendere, from vilis ("worthless") + pendere ("to consider, weigh"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English vilipenden, from Old French vilipender, from Latin vīlipendere : vīlis, worthless; + pendere, to consider, weigh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.”
“With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.”
“‘And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.’”
“I believe to contain more food to maintain the fibre of the soul for right living and high thinking than all pagan literature together, though I would by no means vilipend the study of the classicks.”
“He would be a thin spirit who should gain a lady's friendly regard, and then vilipend because she knew no better, or could not choose.”
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
“The fact that to the eighteenth century belong the subjects of more than half of these thirty volumes, is a proof of the fascination of the period for an author who has never ceased to vilipend it.”
“Edinburgh, as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, _procul a patri finibus, _ and in a manner to expatriate yourself. '”
“This general admonition being addressed to the team at large, the zagal descended to details, and proceeded to vilipend the galloping beasts separately, beginning with the leader.”
“She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and I shall be condemned by the kind of court-martial which hurries over the forms of”
“She will seize her opportunity to vilipend me, and”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vilipend’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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fredrx's beautiful sounding list
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spread out, spacious words of spe
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
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Tweets
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jeffazi 1. To treat someone with contempt.
2. To disparage.
Dec 3, 2007