All 4 Uses
despise
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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- Despise me, if I do not.†
Scene 1.1despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- It is too true an evil: gone she is; And what's to come of my despised time Is naught but bitterness.†
Scene 1.1 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer.†
Scene 2.3
- It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.†
Scene 2.3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)