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Definition: Despising |
DespisingNoun1. A feeling of scornful hatred. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "despising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: DespisingSynonym: despisal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Despising |
| English words defined with "despising": Despection, Despisement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "despising": Anaxarete. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "despising": Despisal, Despise, Despisement. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Tacitus | Many have . . . perished, even good men, despising slow and safe success and hurrying on even at the cost of ruin to premature greatness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Despising" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Despising" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.56% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "despising". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Besai | N/A | Biblical | A despising |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "despising": continentals-despising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "despising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 藐视 (cold-shoulder, Despise, Despised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | dédaignant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verachtend (disdaining, scorning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בזוי (abasement, abashment, abject, contempt, contemptible, cursed, deprecation, despicable, despised, ignominius, measly, menial, pitiful, vile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 괄시. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | espisingday t ireil (contemptible, despicable, low). (various references) hor görme (contempt, insult, look down on, scorn, underestimating, underrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contemptu, contemptui, contemptum, contemptus, exosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Stoma sunetou egkwmiazetai upo androV nwqrokardioV de mukthrizetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Doctrina sua noscetur vir qui autem vanus et excors est patebit contemptui |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Bi his doctrine shal be knowen a man; who forsothe is veyn and herteles, shal ben open to despising. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka tawo pagadayegon sumala sa iyang kaalam; Apan kadtong may kasingkasing nga masukihon pagatamayon. |
| Croatian | Èovjek se hvali po oštrini svoga razuma, a prezire se tko je opak srcem. |
| Danish | For sin Klogskab prises en Mand, til Spot bliver den, hvis Vid er vrangt. |
| Dutch | Een ieder zal geprezen worden, naardat zijn verstandigheid is; maar die verkeerd van hart is, zal tot verachting wezen. |
| Finnish | Ymmärryksensä mukaan miestä kiitetään, mutta nurjasydämistä halveksitaan. |
| French | Un homme est estimé en raison de son intelligence, Et celui qui a le coeur pervers est l`objet du mépris. |
| German | Eines weisen Mannes Rat wird gelobt; aber die da tückisch sind, werden zu Schanden. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Y'ap fè lwanj moun ki gen konprann. Men, y'ap meprize moun ki malveyan. |
| Hungarian | Jobb, a kit kevésre tartanak, és szolgája van, mint a ki magát felmagasztalja, és szûk kenyerû. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang dipuji sesuai dengan kebijaksanaannya; orang dihina sesuai dengan kedunguannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang akan dikenangkan sebab budinya, tetapi orang yang degil hatinya itu akan dibenci. |
| Italian | Un uomo è lodato per il senno, chi ha un cuore perverso è disprezzato. |
| Maori | ¶ Ka rite ki tona ngarahu te whakamoemiti mo te tangata; ko te ngakau parori ki ia ka whakahaweatia. |
| Norwegian | En mann roses alt efter som han har forstand, men den hvis hjerte er forvendt, blir til forakt. |
| Portuguese | Segundo o seu entendimento é louvado o homem; mas o perverso decoração é desprezado. |
| Rumanian | Un om este preyuit dupq mqsura priceperii lui, dar cel cu inima stricatq este dispreyuit. - |
| Russian | иЧБМСФ ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ П НЕТЕ ТБЪХНБ ЕЗП, Б ТБЪЧТБЭЕООЩК УЕТ""ЕН 'Х"ЕФ Ч ТЕЪТЕОЙЙ. |
| Swedish | I mån av sitt vett varder en man prisad, men den som har ett förvänt förstånd, han bliver föraktad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Despising" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sidespin. | |
-2 letters: designs, dingies, dissing, gipsied, gipsies, insides, peising, pidgins, pissing, seising, sidings. | |
-3 letters: deigns, design, dieing, diesis, dinges, genips, gneiss, indies, inside, niseis, pidgin, pieing, pinged, pissed, seisin, siding, signed, singed, singes, siping, sniped, snipes, spends, spined, spines. | |
-4 letters: deign, dines, dinge, dings, genii, genip, indie, issei, nides, nisei, peins, pends, penis, piing. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dispensing, dispersing. | |
+2 letters: displeasing, misspending, redisposing, sideswiping, springtides. | |
+3 letters: posteditings, predisposing, sideslipping, sidestepping. | |
+4 letters: dispossessing, disrespecting, predigestions, sidesplitting. | |
+5 letters: depressurizing, prodigiousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 73 70 69 73 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ... .--. .. ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e s p i s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0073 0070 0069 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387185827585758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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