DESPECTION
DESPECTION, noun A looking down; a despising.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DESPECTION, noun A looking down; a despising.
DESPERADO, noun A desperate fellow; a furious man; a madman; a person urged by furious passions; one fearless, or regardless of safety.
DESPERATE, adjective [Latin To despair.]1. Without hope.I am desperate of obtaining her.2. Without care of safety; rash; fearless of danger; as a desperate man. Hence,3. Furious...
DESPERATELY, adverb1. In a desperate manner; as in despair; hence, furiously; with rage; madly; without regard to danger or safety; as, the troops fought desperately2. In a popu...
DESPERATENESS, noun Madness; fury; rash precipitance.
DESPERATION, noun1. A despairing; a giving up of hope; as desperation of success.2. Hopelessness; despair; as, the men were in a state of desperation Hence,3. Fury; rage; disreg...
DESPICABLE, adjective [Low Latin To look down, to despise; to look.] That may be or deserves to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; applicable equally to persons a...
DESPICABLENESS, noun The quality or state of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
DESPICABLY, adverb Meanly; vilely; contemptibly; as despicably poor.DESPICIENCY, noun A looking down; a despising.
DESPISABLE, adjective Despicable; contemptible.
DESPISAL, noun Contempt.
DESPISE,.verb intransitive1. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of.Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7.Else he will hold to the one, and...
DESPISED, participle passive Contemned; disdained; abhorred.
DESPISEDNESS, noun The state of being despised.
DESPISER, noun A contemner; a scorner.
DESPISING, participle present tense Contemning; scorning; disdaining.DESPISING, noun Contempt.
DESPISINGLY, adverb With contempt.
DESPITE, noun1. Extreme malice; violent hatred; malignity; malice irritated or enraged; active malignity; angry hatred.With all thy despite against the land of israel. Ezekiel 2...
DESPITEFUL, adjective Full of spite; malicious; malignant; as a despiteful enemy.Hater of God, despiteful proud, boasters. Romans 1:30.
DESPITEFULLY, adverb With despite; maliciously; contemptuously.Pray for them that despitefully use you. Matthew 5:44.
DESPITEFULNESS, noun Malice; extreme hatred; malignity.
DESPITEOUS, adjective Malicious.
DESPITEOUSLY, adverb. Furiously.
DESPOIL, verb intransitive [Latin To spoil.]1. To strip; to take from by force; to rob; to deprive; followed by of; as, to despoil one of arms; to despoil of honors; to despoil ...
DESPOILED, participle passive Stripped; robbed; bereaved; deprived.
DESPOILER, noun One who strips by force; a plunderer.
DESPOILING, participle present tense Depriving; stripping; robbing.