Meanings
nouncontemptibility (countable and uncountable, plural contemptibilities)
plural contemptibilities
- countableuncountableThe quality of being contemptible.
The contemptibilitie and vanitie of this effeminate argument detaines vs longer, then for the qualitie thereof vvere fitting, did not ſo much miſchiefe iſſue out of it.
1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 10, page 555, column 2
Synonyms & antonyms
noununworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Broader
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