All 4 Uses of
disdain
in
Frankenstein
- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.†
Chpt 2
- He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.†
Chpt 10
- Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me.
Chpt 10 *disdain = reject as not good enough
- I dared not think that they would turn them from me with disdain and horror.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy