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vilipender

noun

Etymology

From vilipend + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻ — “to stretch”
  2. derived from *wes-✻ — “to buy, sell”
  3. derived from vilipendō
  4. derived from vilipender
  5. inherited from vilipenden — “to treat (something) as contemptible”
  6. formed as vilipender — “vilipend + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who vilipends.

    • […] a Chicago daily paper which was one of the chief vilipenders of the miners on strike.

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