Contemn vs Disparage - What's the difference?
contemn | disparage |
(archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
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(obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
* Bishop Atterbury
* Milton
To ridicule, mock, discredit.
As verbs the difference between contemn and disparage
is that contemn is (archaic) to disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt while disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.As a noun disparage is
(obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.contemn
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* despise, scorn * See alsodisparage
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Noun
(-)- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].
Verb
(disparag)- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
