If torments stand betwixt him and Christ, if death, he contemns them; and if his own parents lie in his way to God, his holy carelessness makes them his footsteps.
He is no gamester of the world (which only complain and praise her), but being only sensible of the honesty of actions, contemns a particular profit as the excrement of scum.
He was for Mr. Clay's land bill; and he has abandoned, and now contemns it.
He tells us that party is nothing but an association of men struggling for power; and that he contemns measures--that measures are not principles.
As a consequence, however, it is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, inasmuch as man contemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
The disobedience that contains contempt of a man's precept is less grievous than the sin which contemns the man who made the precept, because reverence for the person commanding should give rise to reverence for his command.
It is not every presumption that is accounted a sin against the Holy Ghost, but that by which one contemns the Divine justice through inordinate confidence in the Divine mercy.
Among the moral virtues, the greater the thing which a man contemnsthat he may adhere to God, the greater the virtue.
Nor again is every mortal sin disobedience, properly and essentially, but only when one contemns a precept, since moral acts take their species from the end.
This is the case when he adheres to the pleasure of gluttony as his end, for the sake of which he contemns God, being ready to disobey God's commandments, in order to obtain those pleasures.
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.
He slights, despises, and contemns them; that is, "casts them away.
Obstinate is profane, scornful, self-sufficient, and contemns God's Word.
At these moments, too frequent in his life, he contemns authors, and returns to sink back into all the self-complacency of aristocratic indifference.
It is not enough that we overthrow the tyrant who contemns all law, both human and divine: he must fall, but the throne must stand.
The Humourist, though he quickly espies, and contemns the Contradictions of others, is yet wilfully attach'd to several himself, which he will sometimes persue through a long Course of his own Mortification.
My happy state contemns “Even now, the threats of danger.
Great men by small means oft are overthrown; He's lord of thy life whocontemns his own.
The blessing of a Father never reach'd it: His contemplation now scorns ye, contemns ye, And all the tortures ye can use.
To say true, he contemns the character; it is much too familiar and humble for him: his mighty soul would know nothing besides himself and vassals to stock the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
