ppl. a. [f. CONTEMN + -ED1.] Treated with contempt; despised.

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1552.  Huloet, Contempned, contemptus, spretus.

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1601.  Shaks., Twel. N., I. v. 289. Write loyall Cantons of contemned loue.

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1614.  T. Adams, Devil’s Banquet, 207. If a Rich man haue four Sonnes, the youngest or contemnedst must be the Priest.

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1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., III. x. § 9. The illiterate and contemn’d Mechanick.

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1795.  Gentl. Mag., LXI. I. 519. He said it was for contemned love.

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  Hence Contemnedly adv.

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a. 1618.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, Paradox agst. Lib. To live contemnedly With the vile vulgar sort.

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