All 10 Uses of
despise
in
Jane Eyre
- "Another minute, and she will despise me for a hypocrite," thought I; and an impulse of fury against Reed, Brocklehurst, and Co. bounded in my pulses at the conviction.†
Chpt 7
- The eighty, I know, despise me.†
Chpt 8
- Jane, you are mistaken: probably not one in the school either despises or dislikes you: many, I am sure, pity you much.†
Chpt 8 *
- Well, you know Missis always said they were poor and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are; for one day, nearly seven years ago, a Mr. Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you; Missis said you were it school fifty miles off; he seemed so much disappointed, for he could not stay: he was going on a voyage to a foreign country, and the ship was to sail from London in a day or two.†
Chpt 10
- The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both removed their cloaks, and there was 'the Varens,' shining in satin and jewels, — my gifts of course, — and there was her companion in an officer's uniform; and I knew him for a young roue of a vicomte — a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.†
Chpt 15
- He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.†
Chpt 17
- True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.†
Chpt 21
- And if you are inclined to despise the day of small things, seek some more efficient succour than such as I can offer.†
Chpt 29
- But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong — that is a great step gained; I shall strive to overcome them.†
Chpt 31
- I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect