Which preposition to use with contemn

as Occurrences 4%

The nothingness of kingly greatness and national pride were never before so finely contemned as by the voluptuous Assyrian, and were the scorn not mitigated by the skilful intermixture of mercifulness and philanthropy, the character would not be endurable.

for Occurrences 3%

I feel never quite sure of your urbane and smiling coteries; I fear they indulge a man's vanities in silence, suffer him to encroach, encourage him on to be an ass, and send him forth again, not merely contemned for the moment, but radically more contemptible than when he entered.

in Occurrences 2%

We may be cursed, with justice, by posterity, as the abettors of that debauchery by which poverty and disease shall be entailed upon them, contemned in the present as the flatterers of those appetites which we ought to regulate, and insulted by that populace whom we dare not oppose.

of Occurrences 2%

All thy wrongs muster themselves about me, and every evil at once plagues me; for my contempt of God, I am contemned of men; for my swearing and forswearing, no man will believe me; for my gluttony, I suffer hunger; for my drunkenness, thirst; for my adultery, ulcerous sores.

from Occurrences 1%

Sordid Ignorance and a Brute Manner of Life this Generous Prince beheld and contemned from the Light of his own Genius.

by Occurrences 1%

The critical pen of Mrs. Inchbald justly remarks, "To the honour of a profession long held in contempt by the wiseand still contemned by the weakShakspeare, the pride of Britain, was a player."

over Occurrences 1%

Their firm Adherence to their Religion, is no less remarkable than their Numbers and Dispersion, especially considering it as persecuted or contemned over the Face of the whole Earth.

Which preposition to use with  contemn