All 21 Uses
disdain
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
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- No fame of them the world permits to be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain them.†Canto 1.1-11disdain = a lack of respect - 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 1.1-11disdainful = full of disrespect - A little then they quelled their great disdain,
And said: "Come thou alone, and he begone
Who has so boldly entered these dominions.†Canto 1.1-11disdain = a lack of respect - how disdainful he appeared to me!†
Canto 1.1-11disdainful = 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 1.1-11disdain = a lack of respect - Violence can be done the Deity,
In heart denying and blaspheming Him,
And by disdaining Nature and her bounty.†Canto 1.1-11 *disdaining = rejecting as not good enough; or showing a lack of respect - 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 1.1-11disdains = rejects as not good enough; or shows a lack of respect - My spirit, in disdainful exultation,
Thinking by dying to escape disdain,
Made me unjust against myself, the just.†Canto 1.12-22disdainful = full of disrespect - My spirit, in disdainful exultation,
Thinking by dying to escape disdain,
Made me unjust against myself, the just.†Canto 1.12-22disdain = a lack of respect - "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 1.12-22disdainful = full of disrespect - 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 1.12-22disdain = a lack of respect - 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 1.12-22disdainful = full of disrespect - Then said to me: "Tuscan, who to the college
Of miserable hypocrites art come,
Do not disdain to tell us who thou art."†Canto 1.23-34disdain = a lack of respect - 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 1.23-34disdainful = full of disrespect - "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 1.23-34disdain = a lack of respect
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)