Word Meanings - CONTEMNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.

Related words: (words related to CONTEMNER)

• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• SOUTHER
  A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
• SOUTHERLINESS
  The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• SOUTHCOTTIAN
  A follower of Joanna Southcott , an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
• SOUTHWARDLY
  In a southern direction.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• DESPISER
  One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.