All 12 Uses
despise
in
Wuthering Heights
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- We laughed outright at the petted things; we did despise them!†
p. 33.8 *despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.†
p. 88.5despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- WHY did you despise me?†
p. 117.5despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!†
p. 151.9
- And papa swore it was owing to me: he called me a pitiful, shuffling, worthless thing; and said you despised me; and if he had been in my place, he would be more the master of the Grange than your father by this time.†
p. 173.1despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- But you don't despise me, do you, Miss — ?'†
p. 173.1despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- 'Despise you?†
p. 173.2
- He was as quick and as intelligent a child as ever you were; and I'm hurt that he should be despised now, because that base Heathcliff has treated him so unjustly.'†
p. 181.9despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- Despise me as much as you please; I am a worthless, cowardly wretch: I can't be scorned enough; but I'm too mean for your anger.†
p. 193.5despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- I despise you, and will have nothing to say to any of you!†
p. 215.8
- When I call you stupid, I don't mean anything: I don't mean that I despise you.†
p. 227.7
- and that when you sneered at and despised me, and — Go on plaguing me, and I'll step in yonder, and say you worried me out of the kitchen!'†
p. 228.1despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)