c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110,
And forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable.

the Jewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world

[…] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.

1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297,
“but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.”

Despisable

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