"Vilipend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hardly be blamed for their opposition to the Earl's administration, for he had thrown himself completely into the arms of a faction, whose object was to vilipend and traduce them, and it was now difficult for him to recover the functions of which the Queen had deprived him. "The government they had given from themselves to me stuck in their stomachs always," he said. Thus on the one side, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley |
