All 15 Uses
scorn
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Cowper)
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- 'Tis well if she have found, by her own search, 350 An husband for herself, since she accounts The Nobles of Phaeacia, who her hand Solicit num'rous, worthy to be scorn'd— Thus will they speak, injurious.†
Book 6scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- As for the rest, I none refuse, scorn none, But wish for trial of you, and to match 260 In opposition fair my force with yours.†
Book 8 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Next, I exhorted to immediate flight My people; but in vain; they madly scorn'd My sober counsel, and much wine they drank, And sheep and beeves slew num'rous on the shore.†
Book 9scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- shares he still respect Among his num'rous Myrmidons, or scorn In Hellas and in Phthia, for that age Predominates in his enfeebled limbs?†
Book 11scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- I should offend, treating with scorn The stranger, though a poorer should arrive Than ev'n thyself; for all the poor that are, 70 And all the strangers are the care of Jove.†
Book 14
- Then, some good peasant here, either for love Or for respect, would cloak a man like me, Whom, now, thus sordid in attire ye scorn.†
Book 14
- But should they with dishonourable scorn Insult me, thou unmov'd my wrongs endure, And should they even drag me by the feet Abroad, or smite me with the spear, thy wrath Refraining, gently counsel them to cease From such extravagance; but well I know 330 That cease they will not, for their hour is come.†
Book 16
- and why with scorn Rejectest thou the suppliant's pray'r,[72] which Jove Himself hath witness'd?†
Book 16
- man's life is short, 410 Whoso is cruel, and to cruel arts Addict, on him all men, while yet he lives, Call plagues and curses down, and after death Scorn and proverbial mock'ries hunt his name.†
Book 19
- Thou need'st not blush, young Prince, to have received A guest like me; neither my arrow swerved, 510 Nor labour'd I long time to draw the bow; My strength is unimpair'd, not such as these In scorn affirm it.†
Book 21
- Dismiss not therefore, all, Your spears together, but with six alone 290 Assail them first; Jove willing, we shall pierce Ulysses, and subduing him, shall slay With ease the rest; their force is safely scorn'd.†
Book 22scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- repress Thine own, and pacify thy father's wrath, That he destroy not me, through fierce revenge Of their iniquities who have consumed 430 His wealth, and, in their folly scorn'd his son.†
Book 22
- But say; of my domestic women, who Have scorn'd me, and whom find'st thou innocent?†
Book 22
- I mock thee not, my child; no—he is come— Himself, Ulysses, even as I say, 30 That stranger, object of the scorn of all.†
Book 23scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Leave thou, Telemachus, thy mother here 130 To sift and prove me; she will know me soon More certainly; she sees me ill-attired And squalid now; therefore she shews me scorn, And no belief hath yet that I am he.†
Book 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)