contemn

verb2

1. •
   (old-fashioned) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.

   • I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity. — 1919
2. •
   To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).