contemned, ppl. a.
(kənˈtɛmd, formerly kənˈtɛmnɪd)
[f. contemn + -ed1.]
Treated with contempt; despised.
| 1552 Huloet, Contempned, contemptus, spretus. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. i. v. 289 Write loyall Cantons of contemned loue. 1614 T. Adams Devil's Banquet 207 If a Rich man haue four Sonnes, the youngest or contemnedst must be the Priest. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. iii. x. §9 The illiterate and contemn'd Mechanick. 1795 Gentl. Mag. LXI. i. 519 He said it was for contemned love. |
Hence conˈtemnedly adv.
| a 1618 Sylvester Du Bartas, Paradox agst. Lib., To live contemnedly With the vile vulgar sort. |