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Aug. 30, 2016
vilipend\VIL-uh-pend\verb
1. to regard or treat as of little value or account.
2. to vilify; depreciate.
Quotes... instead of imitating the retired and monastic manner of his
brother deceased, he became a gay visitor, and such a reveller, that in
process of time he was observed tovilipend the modest fare which had at
first been esteemed a banquet by his hungry appetite, and thereby
highly displeased my wife ...
-- Sir Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris, 1832
Origin of vilipendVilipend derives from the Latin terms vīlis
meaning "cheap" and pendere meaning "to consider." It entered English
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