14 Verbs to Use for the Word despise

and how seldom renewed by some few who dare despise sordid Wealth, and imagine themselves fit Companions for so charming a Divinity? 'The Goddess had no sooner said thus, but we were arriv'd at the utmost Boundaries of the Wood, which lay contiguous to a Plain that ended at the Foot of the Mountain.

At length the foolish flie, without foresight, As he that did all daunger quite despise, 390 Toward those parts came flying careleslie, Where hidden was his hatefull enemie.

I doe this most abhorrid life despise Since tis to iustice a iust sacrifice.

To her he sues, but she his suit rejects; To him she sues, but he her suit neglects: He sues to be her love; she doth despise: She sues to live a maid, which he denies.

A broken and a contrite heart, ground down by the shame of its own sin, that, O God, thou wilt not despise.

But some, sad outcasts from this prize, Wither down to a lonely grave, All hearts their hidden love despise, And leave them to the whelming wave.

Let none but fools be car'd for of the wise: Knowledge' own children knowledge most despise.

'Why was this idle charge?' he cries; 'Let courage female fears despise.

To intrench in what you grant unrighteous laws, Is to distrust the justice of your cause; And argues that the true religion lies In those weak adversaries you despise.

The Saviour will not always bear With those who from Him stay; And those who long His grace despise, Will grieve His love away.

But there is anither sort, that I do not pityI despise.

Though Gallia's vaunts should fill the trembling skies, 'Till nature's undiscover'd regions start At the rude clamor;yet, shouldst thou despise, While thy brave subjects own a common heart.

'Tis strange to me you shou'd despise this Fortune, I always thought you well inclin'd to love him, I would not else have thus dispos'd of you.

The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  despise