All 8 Uses
scorn
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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- He scorns all tempting liquors; never touches nothing.†
Chpt 5 *scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- Yes—I'll go to Blackmoor Vale half naked as I be, since he do command; but I shall kill myself afterwards; I can't outlive the disgrace, for the women-folk will be looking out of their winders at my mortification all the way along, and laughing me to scorn as a man 'ithout breeches!†
Chpt 15scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Henchard went on: "I'd rather have your scorn, your fear, anything than your ignorance; 'tis that I hate!†
Chpt 19
- Unduly depressed by a sense of her own superfluity she thought he probably scorned her; and quite broken in spirit sat down on a bench.†
Chpt 20scorned = disrespected or rejected
- "You don't—you don't—'tis quite understood," said Wide-oh, without a sound of scorn.†
Chpt 26scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- "But I can do nothing else, man!" said Henchard scornfully.†
Chpt 32scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Yet before the evening probably he will have come, and then she will scorn me!†
Chpt 41scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Solitude and sadness had so emolliated Henchard that he now feared circumstances he would formerly have scorned, and he began to wish that he had not taken upon himself to arrive at such a juncture.†
Chpt 44scorned = disrespected or rejected
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)