All 8 Uses of
disdain
in
Dante's Inferno
- Fame of them the world permitteth not to be; mercy and justice disdain them.†
Canto 1-3 *
- Then with his arms he clasped my neck, kissed my face, and said, "Disdainful soul, blessed be she who bore thee!†
Canto 7-9
- Ah, how full of disdain he seemed to me!†
Canto 7-9
- When I was at the foot of his tomb, he looked at me a little, and then, as though disdainful, asked me, "Who were thy ancestors?"†
Canto 10-12
- Then he turned round to me with better look, saying, "He was one of the Seven Kings that besieged Thebes, and he held, and it appears that he holds God in disdain, and little it appears that he prizes Him; but as I said to him, his own despites are very due adornments for his breast.†
Canto 13-15
- As the falcon which has been long on wing, that, without sight of lure or bird, makes the falconer say, "Ah me, thou stoopest!" descends weary, there whence he had set forth swiftly, through a hundred circles, and lights far from his master, disdainful and sullen; so Geryon set us at the bottom, at the very foot of the scarped rock, and, disburdened of our persons, darted away as arrow from the bowstring.†
Canto 16-18
- Then they said to me, "O Tuscan, who to the college of the wretched hypocrites art come, disdain not to tell who thou art."†
Canto 22-24
- O thou that, in the fateful valley which made Scipio the heir of glory when Hannibal and his followers turned their backs, didst bring of old a thousand lions for booty,—and it still seems credible that hadst thou been at the high war of thy brothers, the sons of the Earth would have conquered,—set us below, and disdain thou not to do so, where the cold locks up Cocytus.†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy