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contemptible (occurs only twice in S.)
1. despicable 1H6 I. ii. 75 “my contemptible estate.”
2. disdainful Ado II. iii. 198 “a contemptible spirit.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry VI, 1.2
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