Meanings
nounvilipendency (uncountable)
- archaicformaluncountabledisesteem; slight; disparagement or hate
The mighty Goliaths of Rome, by this way of vilipendency hope to give our clergy's flesh to be food for the fowls of the air.
1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men, page 149
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