contemner , also: contemnor

A modern stage critic is nothing, if not a lofty contemner of all things simple and direct.

Drummond noted he was "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others".

He submitted that the court should not in principle vary the injunction at the behest of the contemner, and thus increase the adverse consequences upon the plaintiffs.

I will give one instance: I chanced to speak with consideration of these gifts of Stanislao's with a certain clever man, a great hater and contemner of Kanakas.

De Nismes d'Arles, & Vienne contemner, N'obeyr à ledict d'Hespericque: Aux labouriez pour le grand condamner, Six eschappez en habit seraphicque.

He was a worshipper not merely of the literary and artistic form, but also of the ideas and spirit of classic paganism, and therefore a contemner of Christianity and an enemy of the Church.

For Ridley, on matters of indifference, one must defer conscience to the authorities of the church, or else "thou showest thyself a disordered person, disobedient, as [a] contemner of lawful authority, and a wounder of thy weak brother his conscience."

Ms. Gershman said that from the moment Ms. McDougal was placed in Federal custody, Mr. Starr had informed the Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons that she "should be treated like any other civil contemner in her situation."

Now I say that the pope acts per accidens because if the prince is heretical, incorrigible, and a contemner of ecclesiastical censures, the pope can do something among the people so that he will be deprived of his secular office and deposed by the people.

And here he must make a speech for himself and his wife, praising their destiny, their marriage, their son, their daughter-in-law, their grandchildren, their manifold causes of gratitude: surely the most innocent speech, the old, sharp contemner of his innocence now watching him with eyes of admiration.

"But for all that, this contemner of 'reformers' made reform respectable in the United States, and this rebuker of 'muck- rakers' has been the chief agent in making the history of 'muck- raking' in the United States a National one, conceded to be useful.