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蔑む (さげすむ, sagesumu) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “despise”.
Example sentences 11
彼女は 彼をさげすんでいた
She despised him.
貧しい 人をさげすんではならない。
You should not look down upon the poor.
中世の 教会は 肉体をさげすみ 霊をたたえた。
The medieval church despised the body and exalted the spirit.
同じく白州において、自刃もせずに捕らわれたことを徳川方の将兵が蔑むと「命は惜しい。
多分 男の 唯一 真実な 威厳は、 自分 自身をさげすむことができる 能力であろう。
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
イエスを愛することとはどういうことかをよく知っている人、イエスのゆえに自分自身を蔑む人は幸いです。
Blessed is he who understandeth what it is to love Jesus, and to despise himself for Jesus' sake.
この説は女帝である孝謙天皇を蔑む儒教的風潮と相まって戦前まで言われることもあったが、具体的な史料には乏しい。
Such an adultery theory remained until the prewar period based on Confucian misogyny whereby the femininity of Empress Koken was disdained, albeit lacking specific historical sources.
妹の女三宮に比べると落葉のようにつまらない人だと蔑む歌を詠まれる（このため彼女は後世の読者により「落葉の宮」と呼ばれた）。
He made a poem in which he regarded her as a boring woman like a fallen leaf, comparing her with her younger sister, Onna Sannomiya (because of this, she was called 'Ochiba no miya' by the readers in the future).
命と右の手がありさえすれば、家康と秀忠をこのような姿にもできたのだ」と言い、「出家するから」とまで言って命乞いをしている。
In the same trial, when commanders and warriors of the Tokugawa side condemned him for not having committed suicide by the sword and instead being captured, he said 'I hold my life dear. If I can have my life and right hand, I can make Ieyasu and Hidetada into the same form as I am now.' and he begged for his life saying 'I will become a priest.'
山内弘一は大和朝廷が中国から導入した自身を中心とし周辺国を蔑む天下的世界認識や華夷思想によって朝鮮半島の新羅を「蕃国」と位置づけた。
Koichi YAMAUCHI has pointed out the following; the Yamato Dynasty positioned Silla of the Korean Peninsula as a 'barbarian country' by the recognition of the world which put itself on the center and despised surrounding countries and the Sinocentrism which were introduced by China.
都の貴族達は奥州藤原氏の計り知れない財力を認識し、その武力が天下の形勢に関わる事を恐れながらも、得体の知れない蛮族と蔑む傾向があった。
While the nobles in the capital recognized the immeasurable wealth of the Oshu Fujiwara clan and were frightened of the influence of its military power to political situations, they tended to despise the clan as mysterious barbarians.