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Contemnor vs Contemner - What's the difference?

contemnor | contemner |

As nouns the difference between contemnor and contemner

is that contemnor is a person held in contempt of court while contemner is one who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.

contemnor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) A person held in contempt of court.
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    contemner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
  • * ante'' 1588 : (probably), ''A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons'', in ''Cartwrightiana (1951; edited by Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson), page 244] (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415319897&parent_id=&pc= Routledge; ISBN 0415319889, 0415319897)
    • Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.
  • * 1861 November, , Volume IX, Number LII (February 1862), page 10:
    • I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: / “As ye deal with my contemners , so with you my grace shall deal; / ”
  • * 1880 December, , Volume XLVI, Number CCLXXVIII, page 752:
    • From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.