contemptibility

English

Noun

contemptibility (countable and uncountable, plural contemptibilities)

1. The quality of being contemptible.
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 10, page 555, column 2:

     The contemptibilitie and vanitie of this effeminate argument detaines vs longer, then for the qualitie thereof vvere fitting, did not ſo much miſchiefe iſſue out of it.

References

• “contemptibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.