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vilipend

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18
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8
Pronunciation
/ˈvɪlɪpɛnd/
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/ˈvɪlɪpɛnd/ · /ˈvɪləˌpɛnd/

Definition of vilipend

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (dated, formal, transitive)To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
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verb

  1. (dated, formal, transitive)To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
  2. (dated, formal, transitive)To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
    “But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large.”
    “But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents.”

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Etymology

From Middle English vilipenden (“to treat (something) as contemptible”) [and other forms], from Old French vilipender (modern French vilipender (“to condemn, despise, revile, scorn, vilipend, vilify”)), or its etymon Latin…

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From Middle English vilipenden (“to treat (something) as contemptible”) [and other forms], from Old French vilipender (modern French vilipender (“to condemn, despise, revile, scorn, vilipend, vilify”)), or its etymon Latin vilipendō, from vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive; base, mean, vile, worthless”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”)) + pendō (“to hang, suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (figuratively) to consider, ponder”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”)). The English word is cognate with Italian vilipendere (“to despise, scorn, vilipend”), Portuguese vilipendiar (“to vilify”), Spanish vilipendiar (“to vilify”).

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