KJV dictionary & concordance
Regarded or treated as beneath notice, unworthy, contemptible, or of little value; scorned or rejected with contempt.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 17:42
Complete exact-word concordance
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw Dauid, hee disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a faire countenance.
BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
¶ But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.
1611 marginal noteHeb. of fewer dayes then I.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Despised; contemned; scorned.
