Definition of "vilipending" []

• Present participle of vilipend. (verb)

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• "He was in a drunken humour — in a sullen humour — in a thoughtless and vilipending humour — in every humour but a fighting one."
• "But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party."
• "On George’s intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto—menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens."