All 8 Uses of
scorn
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love: and such a man is Claudio.†
Scene 2.3scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Tis true, indeed;so your daughter says: 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?'†
Scene 2.3
- if she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it;
Scene 2.3 *scorn = reject or disrespect
- I know he doth deserve As much as may be yielded to a man; But nature never fram'd a woman's heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice; Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on, and her wit Values itself so highly, that to her All matter else seems weak.†
Scene 3.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?†
Scene 3.1
- I scorn that with my heels.†
Scene 3.4
- Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman?†
Scene 4.1scorned = disrespected or rejected
- Marry, I cannot show it in rime; I have tried: I can find out no rime to 'lady' but 'baby', an innocent rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn', a hard rime; for 'school', 'fool', a babbling rhyme; very ominous endings: no, I was not born under a riming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.†
Scene 5.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough