Definition of "contemned" [contemned]

• Simple past tense and past participle of contemn. (verb)

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• "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."
• "The civil power was to be the secular arm, the instrument, of the Kirk, and was required to inflict the penalties which the preacher imposed on such as contemned the censure and discipline of the Church."
• "The Mexican republic, declared Castillo, had been “despoiled, outraged, contemned” by the United States."