Usually means: Express scorn or disdain for.
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  1. contemn: Merriam-Webster
  2. contemn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contemn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contemn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contemn: Vocabulary.com
  6. contemn: Wordnik
  7. contemn: Wiktionary
  8. contemn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contemn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. contemn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Contemn, contemn: Dictionary.com
  12. Contemn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Contemn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. contemn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. contemn: Rhymezone
  16. Contemn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. contemn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. contemn: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. contemn: FreeDictionary.org
  20. contemn: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. contemn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contemn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contemn: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CONTEMN: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contemn)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
verb:  (law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).

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