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dispise

dispise is the obsolete spelling of despise.

Meaning of despise

Verb

despise (third-person singular simple present despises, present participle despising, simple past and past participle despised)

  1. To regard with contempt or scorn.
    • Near-synonym: hate
    Synonyms:
    contemn, disdain, scorn, hate
  2. To disregard or ignore.

Forms of dispise

third-person singular presentdispises
present participledispising
past participledispised
pastdispised

Questions about dispise

What is dispise the obsolete spelling of?
Dispise is the obsolete spelling of despise.

Words near dispise in the dictionary

  1. dispiritingly
  2. dispiritment
  3. dispiritments
  4. dispirits
  5. dispirous
  6. dispise
  7. dispised
  8. dispises
  9. dispising
  10. dispiteous
  11. dispiteously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispise (page history and authors); despise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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