All 7 Uses
scorn
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
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- See how he scorns human means, so that he wills not oar, or other sail than his own wings between such distant shores.†
Canto 1-11scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- O Lombard soul, how lofty and scornful wast thou; and in the movement of thine eyes grave and slow!†
Canto 1-11 *scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Custom and nature so privilege it that though the guilty head turn the world awry, alone it goes right and scorns the evil road.†
Canto 1-11scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- Opposite, figured at a window of a great palace, Michal was looking on even as a lady scornful and troubled.†
Canto 1-11scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- [1] The ancient blood and the gallant deeds of my ancestors made me so arrogant that, not thinking on the common mother, I held every man in scorn to such extreme that I died therefor, as the Sienese know, and every child in Campagnatico knows it†
Canto 1-11scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Then rained down within my high fantasy, one crucified,[2] scornful and fierce in his look, and thus was dying.†
Canto 12-22scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- And so long as I remained on earth I succored them; and their upright customs made me scorn all other sects.†
Canto 12-22scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)