To answer the question, which verb "despise" or "despise" should be used in a particular situation, you should understand in detail what their difference is. The fact is that they have, in fact, the opposite meaning. Therefore, if you choose the wrong option when writing, you can not just show yourself an illiterate person, but distort the meaning of what you wanted to express. Details on which option - “despise” or “despise” - should be stopped in one case or another, will be described in the article.
First option
When the verb "despise" is considered, then in the dictionary three different interpretations of it are found, although they are close to each other in meaning:
- The first of them is to neglect something, not to take something into account as something insignificant, insignificant.
- According to the second, outdated, the word "despise" means to consider someone or something unworthy of their own attention.
- The third interpretation is to treat something without respect, to consider something low, insignificant, petty.
Examples of the use of the word
For the first case:
- Sobolev was eager to help both the doctor and his friends, who were the only people in the whole town who treated him well, while he despised the danger that threatened him for helping the fugitives.
- He was a very hardy man, despised both hunger and thirst, neglected by cold and heat.
For the second:
- In the story of A.P. Chekhov's “Spouse”, the hero did not believe his wife, he did not sleep and languished when she did not return for a long time, at the same time despising his wife, her mirror, her bed and flowers, which every day someone told her sent and which throughout the house spread a cloying smell.
- It turned out that this man, boasting of his education, not only did not read books, he also despised them with all sincerity.
For the third:
- The girl admitted to her mother that she despised such representatives of secular society - cold, empty, indifferent, arrogant.
- Alexei was already beginning to despise himself for the fact that, constantly giving himself a promise to seriously take care of his own health, he did absolutely nothing for this.
In order to understand how to “despise or despise” it is necessary to consider the meaning of the second verb.
Second option
The meaning of the word “to despise” in the dictionary says that it is obsolete and means the same as the verb “to contemplate,” that is, look mercifully, with participation, with attention, sympathetically.
Examples:
- An almshouse is such a charitable institution in which, in pre-revolutionary times, people with disabilities were contemplated.
- The Holy Scripture calls to watch the poor, clothe the naked, and nourish the hungry.
- The priest called to remember all the prisoners, the fallen, the sick, traveling, so that the Lord merciful gave them the opportunity to look, strengthen, heal and release.
What to choose and how to write?
The following conclusion can be drawn from the formulations and examples that explain them.
When choosing one of the verbs “despise” or “despise”, one must remember that the first of them speaks of a negative feeling, which is expressed in superlative degree. That is, if we consider the first part of the root “despair” - “pre” - as the prefix that was present earlier, when forming the word from the Church Slavonic word - see (mature, look), then it is close in meaning to the word “very”.
The second option contains the "prefix" "when", which was previously present in the formation of the verb when - take. It has the meaning of proximity, proximity, direct adjacency to something. In the case under consideration, it is to be with someone, to feel his care, attention, warmth.
Regarding the question of how to spell “despise” or “despise”, then:
- in the case of a good attitude, with care, you need to write in the first syllable the letter "and" - "look out";
- in the case of a negative attitude, an expression of superiority, neglect - the letter "e" - "Beware".
We examined the possibilities of using these verbs. Now it became clear in what situation their use is appropriate.