[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being contemptible; contemptibility.
1574. Whitgift, Def. Aunsw., 443 (R.). The contemptiblenesse of the place, dothe oftentimes bring contempt to the person.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, v. ¶ 29. The contemptibleness of those baits wherewith he allures us.
1736. Hervey, Mem., I. 52. He did not seem to feel the ridicule or the contemptibleness of his situation.
1822. Coleridge, Lett. Convers., II. 99. The unspeakable contemptibleness of this gentlemanly counterfeit of it [true honour].
