All 7 Uses
despise
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Siddhartha
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- All of this, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, entered Siddhartha for the first time through the eyes, was no longer a spell of Mara, was no longer the veil of Maya, was no longer a pointless and coincidental diversity of mere appearances, despicable to the deeply thinking Brahman, who scorns diversity, who seeks unity.†
Chpt 4despicable = terrible (vile; disgusting) -- worthy of being strongly disliked and looked down uponstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- He instantly felt drawn into the grove, but he thought about it, and only now he became aware of how the servants and maids had looked at him at the entrance, how despicable, how distrustful, how rejecting.†
Chpt 5 *
- He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time.†
Chpt 6despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- But he did not learn this from them, this out of all things, this joy of a child and this foolishness of a child; he learned from them out of all things the unpleasant ones, which he himself despised.†
Chpt 7
- He had been captured by the world, by lust, covetousness, sloth, and finally also by that vice which he had used to despise and mock the most as the most foolish one of all vices: greed.†
Chpt 7despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do.†
Chpt 12
- But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)