despicientia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēspĭcĭentĭa, ae, f. [despicio],

a despising, contempt (very rare; perh. only in Cic.): in omnium rerum humanarum contemptione ac despicientia, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40: rerum externarum, id. Off. 1, 20: animi, id. ib. 2, 11: in contemnendis honoribus, id. Part. Or. 23, 81.

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