All 4 Uses of
disdain
in
Persuasion
- A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to ... than in any other line.
Chpt 3 *disdained = rejected as not good enough
- They were not much interested in anything relative to Anne; but still there were questions enough asked, to make it understood what this old schoolfellow was; and Elizabeth was disdainful, and Sir Walter severe.†
Chpt 17
- Anne sighed and blushed and smiled, in pity and disdain, either at her friend or herself.†
Chpt 19
- She knew him; she saw disdain in his eye, and could not venture to believe that he had determined to accept such an offering, as an atonement for all the insolence of the past.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy