All 12 Uses of
scorn
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship-owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston.†
p. 11.1scorned = disrespected or rejected
- And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.†
p. 13.9scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.†
p. 42.3scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart.†
p. 59.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.†
p. 65.4scorned = disrespected or rejected
- Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent, not from any notion of obedience, but because the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition was excited by the appearance of those new personages.†
p. 73.9scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Standing alone in the world—alone, as to any dependence on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected—alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even had she not scorned to consider it desirable—she cast away the fragment of a broken chain.†
p. 110.4scorned = disrespected or rejected
- In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging and could have been from the very first—the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage—an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.†
p. 121.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- And as for the people's reverence, would that it were turned to scorn and hatred!†
p. 129.6
- Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.†
p. 149.2
- But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful pitying, but half-envious curiosity.†
p. 149.8 *scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester's life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.†
p. 174.3scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough