Contemner

Origin

From contemn + -er.

Full definition of contemner

Noun

1. One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
• ante 1588: Thomas Cartwright (Puritan) probably, A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons, in Cartwrightiana (1951; edited by Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson), page 244 (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Routledge

• Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.
• 1861 November, Julia Ward Howe, “”, in , Volume IX, Number LII (February 1862), page 10:I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
  “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
  ...”
• 1880 December, Henry James, “”, Chapter VIII, in , Volume XLVI, Number CCLXXVIII, page 752:From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.