contemptuosity

Mr. Cornelius Dalton persisted notwithstanding this great act of contemptuosity and discouragement to his creditable and industrious endeavors, to expend, upon the aforesaid farm, in solid and valuable improvements, a sum of seven hundred pounds and upwards, in building, draining, enclosing, and manuring -- all of which improvements transcendantly elevated the value of the farm in question, as the whole rational population of the country could depose to -- _me ipso teste quoque_.

The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831