despisable meaning (archaic): definition

despisable

adj

Etymology From Middle English despisable, from Old French.

Archaic Worthy to be despised.

c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110, And forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable.
the Jewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world1641, Manasseh ben Israel, To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth […] in behalfe of the Jewish Nation, London, page 5:

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[…] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.1741, Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For Particular Friends: on the Most Important Occasions, London: C. Rivington, Letter 146, p. 203:
1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297, “but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.”