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despiser

noun

One who despises.

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Meanings

noundespiser (plural despisers)

plural despisers

One who despises.
Be gone, thou impudent VVretch, to Hell, thy proper Place: thou art a Deſpiſer of my glorious Majeſty, and your Frame of Spirit ſavours of Blaſphemy.
1750, Joseph Bellamy, “Discourse I. Shewing the Nature of the Divine Law, and wherein Consists a Real Conformity to It.”, in True Religion Delineated; or, Experimental Religion, […], Boston, Mass.: […] S. Kneeland, […], →OCLC, section II (Shewing from what Motives True Love to God Takes Its Rise), pages 53–54

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Origin

From despise + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with despiser

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APA

despiser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/despiser

MLA

“despiser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/despiser. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “despiser,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/despiser.

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