All 7 Uses
scorn
in
Dante's Inferno
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- And I, who was gazing, saw a banner, that whirling ran so swiftly that it seemed to me to scorn all repose, and behind it came so long a train of folk, that I could never have believed death had undone so many.†
Canto 1-3 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Then they shut in a little their great scorn, and said, "Come thou alone, and let him be gone who so boldly entered on this realm.†
Canto 7-9
- I had already fixed my face on his, and he straightened himself up with breast and front as though he had Hell in great scorn.†
Canto 10-12
- And I to him, "Of myself I come not; he who waits yonder leads me through here, whom perchance your Guido held in scorn."†
Canto 10-12
- My mind, in scornful temper thinking to escape scorn by death, made me unjust toward my just self.†
Canto 13-15scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- My mind, in scornful temper thinking to escape scorn by death, made me unjust toward my just self.†
Canto 13-15scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- I began, "Master, thou that overcomest everything, except the obdurate demons, who at the entrance of the gate came out against us, who is that great one that seemeth not to heed the fire, and lies scornful and contorted, so that the rain seems not to ripen him?"†
Canto 13-15scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)