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Definition
disrespect or reject as not good enough
- You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.Chapter 16 (45% in)
- I thought of the promise of virtues which he had displayed on the opening of his existence and the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and scorn which his protectors had manifested towards him.Chapter 17 (67% in)
- I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.Chapter 20 (31% in)
There are no more uses of "scorn" in Frankenstein.
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