All 14 Uses
scorn
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The Life and Death of King Richard III
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- Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears, Sham'd their aspects with store of childish drops: These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear, No, when my father York and Edward wept, To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made When black-fac'd Clifford shook his sword at him; Nor when thy warlike father, like a child, Told the sad story of my father's death, And twenty times made pause, to sob and weep, That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks, Like trees bedash'd with rain; in that sad time My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear; And what these sorrows could not thence exhale, Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.†
Scene 1.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- [She looks scornfully at him.†
Scene 1.2scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.†
Scene 1.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- I had rather be a country servant-maid Than a great queen with this condition,—To be so baited, scorn'd, and stormed at.†
Scene 1.3 *scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- The curse my noble father laid on thee, When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper, And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes; And then to dry them gav'st the Duke a clout Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland;—His curses, then from bitterness of soul Denounc'd against thee, are all fallen upon thee; And God, not we, hath plagu'd thy bloody deed.†
Scene 1.3scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- Ay, and much more: but I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top, And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun.†
Scene 1.3
- What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?†
Scene 1.3scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in the holes Where eyes did once inhabit there were crept,—As 'twere in scorn of eyes,—reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.†
Scene 1.4
- You do him injury to scorn his corse.†
Scene 2.1
- To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle, He prettily and aptly taunts himself: So cunning and so young is wonderful.†
Scene 3.1
- Think you, my lord, this little prating York Was not incensed by his subtle mother To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?†
Scene 3.1
- Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm; And I did scorn it, and disdain to fly.†
Scene 3.4
- Decline all this, and see what now thou art: For happy wife, a most distressed widow; For joyful mother, one that wails the name; For one being su'd to, one that humbly sues; For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care; For she that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me; For she being fear'd of all, now fearing one; For she commanding all, obey'd of none.†
Scene 4.4scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- Decline all this, and see what now thou art: For happy wife, a most distressed widow; For joyful mother, one that wails the name; For one being su'd to, one that humbly sues; For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care; For she that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me; For she being fear'd of all, now fearing one; For she commanding all, obey'd of none.†
Scene 4.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)