All 3 Uses of
disdain
in
Leaves of Grass
- The disdain and calmness of martyrs, The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on, The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.†
Chpt 3
- The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons, By the roadside others disdainfully toss'd.†
Chpt 23
- The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
Chpt 24 *disdainful = without respect
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy