All 3 Uses of
scorn
in
Sense and Sensibility
- To have his love used so scornfully!†
Chpt 37 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- What I felt on hearing that your sister was dying—and dying too, believing me the greatest villain upon earth, scorning, hating me in her latest moments—for how could I tell what horrid projects might not have been imputed?†
Chpt 44scorning = disrespecting or rejecting as not good enough
- "DEAR SIR, "Being very sure I have long lost your affections, I have thought myself at liberty to bestow my own on another, and have no doubt of being as happy with him as I once used to think I might be with you; but I scorn to accept a hand while the heart was another's.†
Chpt 49scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough