1. despising - Noun
2. despising - Verb
of Despise
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes. Symeon the New Theologian
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally. Maximus the Confessor
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature. George Henry Lewes
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. Diogenes of Sinope
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster
I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives. Orson Scott Card