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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contemn /kənˈtɛm/

▶verb archaic treat or regard with contempt.

– derivatives
contemner /-ˈtɛmə, -ˈtɛmnə/ noun.

– origin ME: from L. contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere ‘despise’.

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