All 9 Uses
scorn
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- Fame of them the world hath none,
Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn them both.†Canto 1.1-11 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough - My sapient guide
Made sign that he for secret parley wish'd;
Whereat their angry scorn abating, thus
They spake: "Come thou alone; and let him go
Who hath so hardily enter'd this realm.†Canto 1.1-11 - O abject race and scorn'd!†
Canto 1.1-11scorn'd = disrespected or rejected
- On his face was mine
Already fix'd; his breast and forehead there
Erecting, seem'd as in high scorn he held
E'en hell.†Canto 1.1-11scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough - My soul, disdainful and disgusted, sought
Refuge in death from scorn, and I became,
Just as I was, unjust toward myself.†Canto 1.12-22 - thou who all things overcom'st,
Except the hardy demons, that rush'd forth
To stop our entrance at the gate, say who
Is yon huge spirit, that, as seems, heeds not
The burning, but lies writhen in proud scorn,
As by the sultry tempest immatur'd?†Canto 1.12-22 - "If misery of this drear wilderness,"
Thus one began, "added to our sad cheer
And destitute, do call forth scorn on us
And our entreaties, let our great renown
Incline thee to inform us who thou art,
That dost imprint with living feet unharm'd
The soil of Hell.†Canto 1.12-22 - I then began: "Not scorn, but grief much more,
Such as long time alone can cure, your doom
Fix'd deep within me, soon as this my lord
Spake words, whose tenour taught me to expect
That such a race, as ye are, was at hand.†Canto 1.12-22 - Stoop
Therefore, nor scornfully distort thy lip.†Canto 1.23-34scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)