All 4 Uses
disdain
in
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
(Edited)
- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
p. 43.4disdain = lack of respect
- He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
p. 102.1disdain = a lack of respect
- Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me.
p. 103.8 *disdain = reject as not good enough
- I dared not think that they would turn them from me with disdain and horror.
p. 134.7disdain = rejection as not good enough
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)