used of と侮る in these sentence and ~と侮る vs ~を侮る (perhaps related to 知る as well) speaker is someone that normally fights demons, but fell for a trap set up by A, a human. Speaker has always hated A. > …………A…… pass out > > I, of all people.... A...isn't a demon....underestimating (someone) like A, I became conceited. from what i can tell ~ seems common as ~ from , i assume that this is used as a quote to describe the preceeding claused just like "" are both **** and A **** attached to or is it ……A? more generally If a random sentence had ~ instead of ~, i probably wouldn't bat an eye. I suppose i could say the same for ~ vs ~. CTRL-F'ing my past texts i found is used 5x more often than After this encountering this ~ sentence i realized i really can't tell the difference between ~ vs ~ either. Thank you for any clarifications.

(AB) is one of the verbs that take both and and means "to (verb) A as B". The part marked by can be a full quote (clause or mini-sentence), but it can be a bare noun or a noun phrase, too. As usual, both the -part and the -part may be omitted.

* Difference between vs before
* grammatical and semantic difference of "" and ""
* Can used with /



> * A
> to make light of A as not being a _mazoku_
> * ()
> to make light (of someone) as (being) a (mere) human being
> *
> to make light of human beings
> * ()
> (literally) to underestimate thinking it's mere hyperventilation / to underestimate hyperventilation
> * [×] (unnatural)
> [×] to underestimate mere hyperventilation (sounds like you have to underestimate something other than hyperventilation)
>


The difference between and is similar, but usually takes a full quote (i.e., mini-sentence with a verb). In fixed expressions and literary expressions, `noun + ` exists.