All 6 Uses of
scorn
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- Pardon, high words I cannot labor after, Though the whole court should look on me with scorn; My pathos certainly would stir thy laughter, Hadst thou not laughter long since quite forsworn.†
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- Pain and indignity, Scorn and malignity, Their work have ended.†
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- The crowd's applause has now a scornful tone; O couldst thou hear my conscience tell its story, How little either sire or son Has done to merit such a glory!†
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- And the damn'd living fluff, of man and beast the brood, It laughs to scorn my utmost power.†
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- The Lord of Spirits scorneth me, Nature, shut up, resents the wrong.†
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- When my scorn could scarcely find expression At hearing of another's transgression!†
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Definition:
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(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough