Consider vs Contempt - What's the difference?
consider | contempt |
(label) To think about seriously.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= (label) To think of doing.
(label) To assign some quality to.
* (1800-1859)
*
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (label) To look at attentively.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 16
(label) To take up as an example.
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, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To debate or dispose of a motion.
To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1628–1699)
(uncountable) The state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
* , chapter=13
, title= The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
(legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
As a verb consider
is (label) to think about seriously.As a noun contempt is
(uncountable) the state of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.consider
English
Alternative forms
* considre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.
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- Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
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- She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
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- Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.
- England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
Usage notes
* In sense 2, this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See .Synonyms
* (think about seriously) bethink, reflect on * (think of doing) think of, bethink * (assign a quality) deem, regard, think of; see also * (look at closely) regard, observe * (debate a motion) deliberate, bethink * (include in an estimate or plan) take into accountcontempt
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(wikipedia contempt)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}