All 10 Uses of
disdain
in
Don Quixote
- It is my earnest hope that Your Excellency's good counsel in regard to my honourable purpose, will not disdain the littleness of so humble a service.
Chpt 1.0 *disdain = disrespect
- Disdain hath power to kill, and patience dies Slain by suspicion, be it false or true; And deadly is the force of jealousy; Long absence makes of life a dreary void; No hope of happiness can give repose To him that ever fears to be forgot; And death, inevitable, waits in hall.†
Chpt 1.13-14disdain = a lack of respect
- But I, by some strange miracle, live on A prey to absence, jealousy, disdain; Racked by suspicion as by certainty; Forgotten, left to feed my flame alone.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- Who would not give free access to distrust, Seeing disdain unveiled, and—bitter change!†
Chpt 1.13-14
- put chains upon these hands, And bind me with thy strongest cord, Disdain.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- Thus, self-deluding, and in bondage sore, And wearing out the wretched shred of life To which I am reduced by her disdain, I'll give this soul and body to the winds, All hopeless of a crown of bliss in store.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- They closed the grave with a heavy stone until a slab was ready which Ambrosio said he meant to have prepared, with an epitaph which was to be to this effect: Beneath the stone before your eyes The body of a lover lies; In life he was a shepherd swain, In death a victim to disdain.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- Disdain.†
Chpt 1.27-28
- If that be so, then for my grief Where shall I turn to seek relief, When hope on every side lies slain By Absence, Jealousies, Disdain?†
Chpt 1.27-28
- PANIAGUADO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, IN LAUDEM DULCINEAE DEL TOBOSO SONNET She, whose full features may be here descried, High-bosomed, with a bearing of disdain, Is Dulcinea, she for whom in vain The great Don Quixote of La Mancha sighed.†
Chpt 1.51-52
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy