[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being contemptuous; scornfulness, disdainfulness.
1667. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., Pref. (1713), 4. A due and becoming Contemptuousness.
1752. Johnson, Rambler, No. 206, ¶ 12. Sometimes … the insolence of wealth breaks into contemptuousness.
1837–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit. (1847), III. 266. His language is that of asperity and contemptuousness.
