They who assert that space is an uncreated, independent, and indestructible entity, ought to be able to define it and tell what it is.
Just so the Papists profess,(415) that the omission of their rites and observances is not a sin in itself, but only in respect of contemning the church’s customs and commandments.
Now, the not obeying of their laws inferreth not the contemning of themselves (which were not allowable), but only the contemning of their laws.
Where falsely he supposeth, not only that there may occur a just and necessary cause of contemning those whom God hath set over us in the church, but, also, that the not obeying of them inferreth the contemning of them.
And for pride and covetousness, for loathing of the gospel, and contemning holiness, as these have covered the face of the nation, as they have infected most of them that now name the name of Christ.
The sins of our day are conspicuous and open as Sodom's were; pride and covetousness, loathing of the gospel, and contemning holiness, have covered the face of the nation.
An absent smile, and a few faint acknowledgments of her goodness were all she could return: Eugenia abandoned when she might have been served, Edgar contemning when he might have been approving .
He upbraids his levity for contemning a country life, which had been his choice, and being eager to return to Rome.
I answer that, Just as sin consists in man contemning God and adhering to mutable things, so the merit of a virtuous act consists in man contemning created goods and adhering to God as his end.
Therefore if a man contemns created goods in order that he may adhere to God, his virtue derives greater praise from his adhering to God than from his contemning earthly things.
The sins of despair and presumption consist, not in disbelieving in God's justice and mercy, but in contemning them.
The act of contemningor despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
One of them told him, "You are a foolhardy man, who, contemning the physicians, have no fear either of the fever or of the malaria.
We should aim at celestial honour, and not regard the contemningof men.
The Monks and Friars, in times past, boasted much of theircontemning of the world, and they made use of that speech of St. Paul (Rom.
The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
And yet notwithstanding they will defame and kill one another, commit all unlawful actions, contemning God and men, friends and country.
Then, this sort of a conscience is not habitually certain, and laxity consists precisely incontemning doubts and passing over lurking, lingering suspicions as not worthy of notice.
For by contemning fame, the virtues that procure it, are contemned.
The beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount are all utterances of the mind contemning the phenomenal world.
O'er Stygian waters have I pass'd, Contemning Jove's severe decree, And reached thy sable court at last To find my lost Eurydice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
