contemptuosities

Noun

contemptuosity (countable and uncountable, plural contemptuosities)

1. (rare, uncountable) The state of being contemptuous.
   • That the said Mr. Cornelius Dalton persisted, notwithstanding this great act of contemptuosity and discouragement to his creditable and industrious endeavours, to expend, upon the aforesaid farm, in solid and valuable improvements, a sum of seven hundred pounds and upwards, in building, draining...1846 October, William Carleton, “[The Black Prophet.—A Tale of Irish Famine.] Chapter XXII.—Jemmy Branigan and the Pedlar.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal...
2. (countable, rare) Someone or something that is contemptuous.
   • And now, if all the devices made use of on the occasion we have suggested—scowls, contemptuosities, cries of “humbug,” “devil in’t,“ charlatanry, and the hue and cry of editors, D. D.’s, M. D.’s, priests, lawyers, fashionability of churches, etc., put into grand action for reversing the mighty...1872 January 20, J. R. Robinson, “From the Winona (Minn.) Republican. Huxley and the Spiritualists. That Eminent Scientist Catches an American Tartar in a Winona Defender of the Faith.”, in...