Despise
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Despise - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DESPISE, .v.t.
1. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov 1.
Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Mat 6.
2. To abhor.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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