All 7 Uses of
scorn
in
Oedipus King of Thebes (translated by: Murray)
- —Children, care For this so moves me, I have scorned withal Message or writing: seeing 'tis I ye call, 'tis I am come, world-honoured Oedipus.†
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- More blind, more sad thy words of scorn, which none Who hears but shall cast back on thee: soon, soon.†
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- —Go, Heap scorn on Creon and my lips withal: For this I tell thee, never was there fall Of pride, nor shall be, like to thine this day.†
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- That one Day I kept silence, but the morrow morn I sought my parents, told that tale of scorn And claimed the truth; and they rose in their pride And smote the mocker….†
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- I heard, and, hearing, straight from where I stood, No landmark but the stars to light my way, Fled, fled from the dark south where Corinth lay, To lands far off, where never I might see My doom of scorn fulfilled.†
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- A strange scorn that, to greet A babe new on the earth!†
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- Found not the way to his father's blood, nor shaken The world's scorn on his mother, The child and the groom withal; But now, of murderers born, of God forsaken, Mine own sons' brother; All this, and if aught can fall Upon man more perilous And elder in sin, lo, all Is the portion of Oedipus.†
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Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough