despiser
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In Los Angeles, Hans Spangenberg, lover of labials, despiser of sibilants, asked court permission to change his name to Valcour Berne de Belair.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a foe to compromise and a despiser of imposition.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
The courage of the despiser will fail: the last poor comfort of the blasphemer, to hurl against the judgment seat the last despairing, defiant word, will be taken away.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
Oh, I am no Galahad or Cincinnatus, no patient despiser of earthly good; no longer even the idealist who spun his dreams on the Nadeja.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
Such a nature matures rapidly, and a century might have marked the evolution from a despiser of kings to a hater of all forms of restrictive government.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
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