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despicientia

despicientia · f

a despising, contempt

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Where it lives

Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

dēspĭcĭentĭa — Lewis & Short

dēspĭcĭentĭa, ae, f.despicio,

I a despising, contempt (very rare; perh. only in Cic.): in omnium rerum humanarum contemptione ac despicientia, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40: rerum externarum, id. Off. 1, 20: animi, id. ib. 2, 11: in contemnendis honoribus, id. Part. Or. 23, 81.

In the wild

despicientiae Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.31.p2

Where it came from

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