All 3 Uses
despise
in
Uncle Vanya
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- I like life as life, but I hate and despise it in a little Russian country village, and as far as my own personal life goes, by heaven!†
Act 2 *despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- Don't you all despise me for not stealing, when it would have been only justice?†
Act 3
- [Then, more gently] It may be that posterity, which will despise us for our blind and stupid lives, will find some road to happiness; but we—you and I—have but one hope, the hope that we may be visited by visions, perhaps by pleasant ones, as we lie resting in our graves†
Act 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)