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Definition
disrespect or reject as not good enough
- To have his love used so scornfully! for they say he is monstrous fond of her, as well he may.Chapter 37 (20% in)
- 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?Chapter 44 (89% in)
- "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.Chapter 49 (36% in)
There are no more uses of "scorn" in Sense and Sensibility.
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