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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
despise
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Examples
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Musa passed on to the third tablet, whereon was written, O son of Adam, the things of this world thou lovest and prizest and the hest of thy Lord thou spurnest and despisest.
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But when thou altogether despisest fear, and rejectest with scorn the very faith of
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the loving one: thou lovest thyself, and on that account despisest thou thyself, as only the loving ones despise.
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[450] But again the proconsul said to him, "I will cause thee to be consumed by fire, seeing thou despisest the wild beasts, if thou wilt not repent."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have compassion upon me.
The Confessions 1999
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But who is this Creator but thou, our God, the sweetness and wellspring of righteousness, who renderest to every man according to his works and despisest not "a broken and a contrite heart" [90]?
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.
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Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Ps.li. 17 supplies the thought of, that _despisest not -- the contrite heart_, which is interwoven with, _sorrowful sighing_, from Psalm lxxix.
The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson
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