All 3 Uses
disdain
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
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- And Antinous made harangue and spake among them: 'Good sirs, my friends, shun all disdainful words alike, lest someone hear and tell it even in the house.†
Book 4 *disdainful = full of disrespect
- Thenceforth disdain not thou the bed of the goddess, that she may deliver thy company and kindly entertain thee.†
Book 10disdain = a lack of respect
- There is building beyond building, and the court of the house is cunningly wrought with a wall and battlements, and well-fenced are the folding doors; no man may hold it in disdain.†
Book 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)