contemptibility

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English

Noun

contemptibility (countable and uncountable, plural contemptibilities)

  1. The quality of being contemptible.
    • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, ”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. , London: William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, , →OCLC, book IX ( ), paragraph 10, page 555, column 2:
      The contemptibilitie and vanitie of this effeminate argument detaines vs longer, then for the qualitie thereof vvere fitting, did not ſo much miſchiefe iſſue out of it.

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