DESPISE, .verb intransitive 1. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7. Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matthew 6:24. 2. To abhor.
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