Our high situation enables us to contemn petty insults and to make advances towards cordiality.
I contemn too much the occupation by which I have thriven so well, and hints that I may easily lead other people to follow my opinion in vilipending my talents, and the use I have made of them.
For his sake then, in that I was his friend, Do notcontemn me.
Why should rude feet contemn the snow's chaste white, Which from the sun receives a sparkling light, Brighter than diamonds far, and by its birth 5 Decks the green garment of the richer earth?
Certainly, such spirits as couldcontemn death, when they expected no better being after, would have scorned to live had they known any.
I would fain have persuaded him that it was a wild scheme; but he was a soldier, gentlemen, and accustomed to contemn all dangers.
And though some, too seeming holy, Do account thy raptures folly, Thou dost teach me to contemn What makes knaves and fools of them.
God giveth the law to the end we may thereby be roused up and made pliant; for the commandments do go and proceed against the proud and haughty, which contemn God's gifts; now a gift or present cannot be a commandment.
If (said Luther) God should give unto us a strong and an unwavering faith, then we should he proud, yea also, we should at last contemn Him.
The gentlemen despise citizens, the citizens contemn the poor countrymen, and yet their bloods in a basin have no different colours, for all this hot contention about blood and birth.
Contemn it: His envie fains this, and he's but reporter, Without a second, of his own dry fancies.
Thou despised fool, Thou only sign of man, how I contemn thee!
Well, but Christ would not despise them, of them that feared God, but preferred them by the Scripture testimony far before those that did contemn them.
But to slight grace, to do despite to the Spirit of grace, to prefer our own works to the derogating from grace, what is it but to contemn God?
There is an incidence36 in us, I know not how it doth come about, when we are converted, to contemn them that are left behind.
Even so it is with them that, by cursing, wish evil to their neighbour, or to themselves, they contemn the image, even the image of God himself.
But he that shall contemn this grace, confronts the highest wisdom, even wisdom upon the throne; he saith to himself, I am wiser than Daniel, than the judgment of God.
Wilt thou continue to contemn and reproach the living God?
Learn now to contemn all earthly things, and then mayest thou freely go unto Christ.
Kings must be dauntless; subjects willcontemn Those who want hearts and wear a diadem.
For love or pity to his muse, That she may flow in verse, Contemn to recommend a cruse, But send to her a tierce.
See her proud steed majestically prance, Contemn the trumpet, and deride the lance!
If you would not rather be commended than be praiseworthy, contemn little merits; and allow no man to be so free with you, as to praise you to your face.
We can all stifle the convictions of conscience and contemn the principles which conflict with our interest or our inclination; and there are in every station unconscious imitators of the Queen of Israel.
We must contemn all the vile, that are not under a relation to be honoured, and these also that are in that relation, in so far as they are vile.
So that we sin against the fifth command, when we honour them that we are obliged to contemn by another command.
Christians shew by their deeds, that they honour such as fear the Lord, and contemn a vile person?
They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.
Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to respect thyself, will be at an end.
To stir up a man to the contempt of death this among other things, is of good power and efficacy, that even they who esteemed pleasure to be happiness, and pain misery, did nevertheless many of them contemn death as much as any.
Apt to what danger Love dares thrust me on, And where Law stops my way, apt to contemn it?
The too curious reader may perhaps require other specimens of the more unlucky inventions of this "Golden Legend;" as characteristic of a certain class of minds, the philosopher will contemn these grotesque fictions.
For if thou dost contemn these, be thou assured, thou shalt almost instantly be tossed and tormented in the inevitable and dark floods of endless fire.
In these the natives are accustomed to swim and traverse about being immersed as high as their waists: for going naked as to the greater part of their bodies, they contemn the mud.
Let the Grave and Great contemn or yawn at these low Conceits, but let me be happy in the Enjoyment of them!
Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person.
For I esteem those names of men so poor, Who could do mighty things, and could contemn Riches, though offered from the hand of kings.
They contemn the miseries of life, and are above pain, by the generosity of their mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
