All 15 Uses of
scorn
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- The darkness of his sin was in the hard-heartedness with which he resisted God's power; in the scorn that was often his while he listened to the crying, breaking voices, and watched the black skin glisten while they lifted up their arms and fell on their faces before the Lord.†
Chpt 1.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Roy asked scornfully.†
Chpt 1.1scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love.†
Chpt 1.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- But Sister Price did not see this, which deepened John's hidden scorn.†
Chpt 1.1
- Gabriel came, from all his times and ages, to curse the sister who had held him to scorn and mocked his ministry.†
Chpt 2.1
- In a moment, Florence thought with scorn, tears would fill his eyes, and he would promise to "do better."†
Chpt 2.1
- She knew that she was mouthing words; and she realized suddenly that her mother scorned to dignify these words with her attention.†
Chpt 2.1 *scorned = disrespected or rejected
- There were people in the church, and even men carrying the gospel, who mocked Deborah behind her back; but their mockery was uneasy; they could never be certain but that they might be holding up to scorn the greatest saint among them, the Lord's peculiar treasure and most holy vessel.†
Chpt 2.2scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- The Word tell me it ain't right to hold nobody up to scorn.†
Chpt 2.2
- And he saw her, with the dumb, pale, startled ghosts of joy and desire hovering in him yet, a thin, vivid, dark-eyed girl, with something Indian in her cheekbones and her carnage and her hair; looking at him with that look in which were blended mockery, affection, desire, impatience, and scorn; dressed in the flamelike colors that, in fact, she had seldom worn, but that he always thought of her as wearing.†
Chpt 2.2
- She sat down at the table and stared at him with scorn aind amazement; sat down heavily, as though she had been struck.†
Chpt 2.2
- The music that filled any town or city he entered was not the music of the saints but another music, infernal, which glorified lust and held righteousness up to scorn.†
Chpt 2.2
- He don't like working," said her aunt, scornfully.†
Chpt 2.3scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Her aunt, who listened to this with no diminution of her habitual scorn, was yet unable to deny that from generation to generation, things, as she grudgingly put it, were bound to change?†
Chpt 2.3scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Then the ironic voice, terrified, it seemed, of no depth, no darkness, demanded of John, scornfully, if he believed that he was cursed.†
Chpt 3.1scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner