презирать

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣзирати (prězirati). By surface analysis, пре- (pre-) +‎ -зира́ть (-zirátʹ). See Proto-Slavic *zьrěti for more.

Pronunciation

Verb

презира́ть (prezirátʹimpf (perfective презре́ть)

  1. (transitive) to despise, to hold in contempt
    • 1877, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], “Часть I Глава XXIV”, in Анна Каренина; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, 1901:
      Лёвин чу́вствовал, что брат Никола́й в душе́ свое́й, в самой осно́ве свое́й души́, несмотря́ на всё безобра́зие свое́й жи́зни, не был бо́лее непра́в, чем те лю́ди, кото́рые презира́ли его́.
      Ljóvin čúvstvoval, što brat Nikoláj v dušé svojéj, v samoj osnóve svojéj duší, nesmotrjá na vsjo bezobrázije svojéj žízni, ne byl bóleje nepráv, čem te ljúdi, kotóryje preziráli jevó.
      Levin felt that, in spite of all the ugliness of his life, his brother Nikolay, in his soul, in the very depths of his soul, was no more in the wrong than the people who despised him.
  2. (transitive) to scorn, to disdain

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