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contemptibility en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being contemptible.
    • The contemptibilitie and vanitie of this effeminate argument detaines vs longer, then for the qualitie thereof vvere fitting, did not ſo much miſchiefe iſſue out of it. 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 10, page 555, column 2:

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