contemptibility

English

Noun

contemptibility (countable and uncountable, plural contemptibilities)

The quality of being contemptible.
- 1623, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Iohn Beale, for George Humble, […], →OCLC:
  The contemptibility and vanity of this effeminate argument

References

“contemptibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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