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What does contemn mean?

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Verb
  1. (archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
  2. (law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).
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He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn.
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.
I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it.
Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles.
Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person.

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