All 30 Uses of

disdain

in

The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow

No fame of them the world permits to be; Misericord and Justice both disdain them.†
Canto 1.1-11

Thereafter with his arms he clasped my neck; He kissed my face, and said: "Disdainful soul, Blessed be she who bore thee in her bosom.†
Canto 1.1-11

A little then they quelled their great disdain, And said: "Come thou alone, and he begone Who has so boldly entered these dominions.†
Canto 1.1-11

...and he made sign That I should quiet stand, and bow before him. Ah! how disdainful he appeared to me!
Canto 1.1-11 *

disdainful = full of disrespect

As soon as I was at the foot of his tomb Somewhat he eyed me, and, as if disdainful, Then asked of me, "Who were thine ancestors?"†
Canto 1.1-11

And I to him: "I come not of myself; He who is waiting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had."†
Canto 1.1-11

Violence can be done the Deity, In heart denying and blaspheming Him, And by disdaining Nature and her bounty.†
Canto 1.1-11

And for this reason doth the smallest round Seal with its signet Sodom and Cahors, And who, disdaining God, speaks from the heart.†
Canto 1.1-11

From these two, if thou bringest to thy mind Genesis at the beginning, it behoves Mankind to gain their life and to advance; And since the usurer takes another way, Nature herself and in her follower Disdains he, for elsewhere he puts his hope.†
Canto 1.1-11

My spirit, in disdainful exultation, Thinking by dying to escape disdain, Made me unjust against myself, the just.†
Canto 1.12-22

My spirit, in disdainful exultation, Thinking by dying to escape disdain, Made me unjust against myself, the just.†
Canto 1.12-22

"Master," began I, "thou who overcomest All things except the demons dire, that issued Against us at the entrance of the gate, Who is that mighty one who seems to heed not The fire, and lieth lowering and disdainful, So that the rain seems not to ripen him?"†
Canto 1.12-22

Then he turned round to me with better lip, Saying: "One of the Seven Kings was he Who Thebes besieged, and held, and seems to hold God in disdain, and little seems to prize him; But, as I said to him, his own despites Are for his breast the fittest ornaments.†
Canto 1.12-22

And, "If the misery of this soft place Bring in disdain ourselves and our entreaties," Began one, "and our aspect black and blistered, Let the renown of us thy mind incline To tell us who thou art, who thus securely Thy living feet dost move along through Hell.†
Canto 1.12-22

Then I began: "Sorrow and not disdain Did your condition fix within me so, That tardily it wholly is stripped off, As soon as this my Lord said unto me Words, on account of which I thought within me That people such as you are were approaching.†
Canto 1.12-22

As falcon who has long been on the wing, Who, without seeing either lure or bird, Maketh the falconer say, "Ah me, thou stoopest," Descendeth weary, whence he started swiftly, Thorough a hundred circles, and alights Far from his master, sullen and disdainful; Even thus did Geryon place us on the bottom, Close to the bases of the rough-hewn rock, And being disencumbered of our persons, He sped away as arrow from the string.†
Canto 1.12-22

Then said to me: "Tuscan, who to the college Of miserable hypocrites art come, Do not disdain to tell us who thou art."†
Canto 1.23-34

Leave me to speak, because I have conceived That which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine.†
Canto 1.23-34

"O my Conductor, his own violent death, Which is not yet avenged for him," I said, "By any who is sharer in the shame, Made him disdainful; whence he went away, As I imagine, without speaking to me, And thereby made me pity him the more."†
Canto 1.23-34

"O thou, who in the valley fortunate, Which Scipio the heir of glory made, When Hannibal turned back with all his hosts, Once brought'st a thousand lions for thy prey, And who, hadst thou been at the mighty war Among thy brothers, some it seems still think The sons of Earth the victory would have gained: Place us below, nor be disdainful of it, There where the cold doth lock Cocytus up.†
Canto 1.23-34

Not in another fashion Tydeus gnawed The temples of Menalippus in disdain, Than that one did the skull and the other things.†
Canto 1.23-34

We came up unto it; O Lombard soul, How lofty and disdainful thou didst bear thee, And grand and slow in moving of thine eyes!†
Canto 2.1-11

I thought within myself, perchance he strikes From habit only here, and from elsewhere Disdains to bear up any in his feet.†
Canto 2.1-11

Curs findeth it thereafter, coming downward, More snarling than their puissance demands, And turns from them disdainfully its muzzle.†
Canto 2.12-22

Then I beheld another with those waters Adown her cheeks which grief distils whenever From great disdain of others it is born, And saying: "If of that city thou art lord, For whose name was such strife among the gods, And whence doth every science scintillate, Avenge thyself on those audacious arms That clasped our daughter, O Pisistratus;" And the lord seemed to me benign and mild To answer her with aspect temperate: "What shall we do to those who wish us ill, If he who loves us be by…†
Canto 2.12-22

Then reigned within my lofty fantasy One crucified, disdainful and ferocious In countenance, and even thus was dying.†
Canto 2.12-22

The house from which is born your lamentation, Through just disdain that death among you brought And put an end unto your joyous life, Was honoured in itself and its companions.†
Canto 3.12-22

And how long to mine eyes it was a pleasure, And of the great disdain the proper cause, And the language that I used and that I made.†
Canto 3.23-33

And even this above here is endured With less disdain, than when is set aside The Holy Writ, or when it is distorted.†
Canto 3.23-33

Paradiso: Canto XXXIII "Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son, Humble and high beyond all other creature, The limit fixed of the eternal counsel, Thou art the one who such nobility To human nature gave, that its Creator Did not disdain to make himself its creature.†
Canto 3.23-33

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