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Definition of Despisements
1. despisement [n] - See also: despisement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despisements
Literary usage of Despisements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"He may offer, if so it please his soul, what the Carolian Duchess of Newcastle
calls ' the careless Neglects and despisements of the masculine sex to the ..."
2. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 by Myra Reynolds (1920)
"... through the care- lesse neglects, and despisements of the masculine sex to
the effeminate, thinking it impossible we should have either learning or ..."
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