Word: contempt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Receive his love with severe contempt...
...themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity is due to a careful avoidance of expressing disapprobation at such talk and acts are not manly. The independent man would be a fool if he felt no respect for the esteem of the former, or contempt for that of the latter. Ossip, finally, is wrong when he says that we "merely" say "popularity is the result of insincerity." Our words were : "Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness, or illegitimately from insincerity." But let us not among these subordinate blunders forget the vital question...
...Ossip" made no such assertion. Our statements were confined to particular cases which we had in mind. We said that there are men in college who show in an offensive and silly way their complete independence and their hostility to popular prejudices. We have heard them express their contempt for social success, and declare the whole college is imbued with the spirit of toadyism. But when we contrasted their present views with the opinions they entertained when they came to college, we could not help recalling the instructive fable of the fox and the grapes...
...contempt for C. J. White...
Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness or illegitimately from insincerity. When La Rochefoucauld says that hatred towards the popular is nothing but love for popularity, if he means hatred of legitimate popularity, he is certainly right. But the popularity which results from insincerity men do not hate: they feel contempt...