despised

Let us imitate the Three Children at the Assyrian court who despised this same ordeal of the furnace.

And think it not wonderful if with those men Reason triumphed over the tortures, when even a woman's soul despised a yet greater diversity of pains; for the mother of the seven youths endured the torments inflicted on each several one of her children.

I have proved, accordingly, that not only have men triumphed over their sufferings, but that a woman also has despised the most dreadful tortures.

Ye, therefore, that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted.

But I was despised and rejected in the eye of many: and I was in their eyes like lead,

For they have despised those who persecuted them;