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How To Use contemn In A Sentence

• It mattered not that a corporate contemnor could not be committed to prison. Times, Sunday Times
• Now, Arizona courts must hold hearings every 35 days for those held in civil contempt on family-law issues, and judges must find that a contemnor has the ability to comply with the order. No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years
• Si vis ditari, contemne divitias; that's true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches, non habere, sed non indigere, vera abundantia: 'tis more glory to contemn, than to possess; et nihil agere, est deorum, and to want nothing is divine. Anatomy of Melancholy
• David: Well I understand that, but the question seems premised on the position that Congress forcing the DOJ to prosecute someone is the only way for congress to have some it deems a contemnor held in contempt. The Volokh Conspiracy » May Congress Order the Justice Department To Prosecute People Who the Justice Department Firmly Believes are Innocent?
• As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest. Anatomy of Melancholy
• a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• The glory of Moab shall be contemned, that is, it shall be contemptible, when all those things they have gloried in shall come to nothing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• IV. i.1 (427,1) Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd] The meaning is, _'Tis better_ to be _thus contemned, and_ known _to yourself_ to be contemned. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
• What if the sword contemn the tribe or sceptre? namely, that of Judah and the house of David (so some think Shebet here signifies); what if it should aim at the ruin of our government? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• So saying, the indignant Sage nevertheless plunged the contemned pieces of gold into a large pouch which he wore at his girdle, which Toinette, and other abettors of lavish expense, generally contrived to empty fully faster than the philosopher, with all his art, could find the means of filling. Quentin Durward