despect
Meanings
noun
- Contempt, derision.
verb
- To hold in contempt, to despise, to look down on, to scorn.
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Etymology
From Middle English despect (“contempt, spite”), from Latin dēspectus (“a looking down upon, contempt”), from dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + specere (“to look at, behold”), equivalent to de- + -spect.
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