Both Uses of
disdain
in
Moll Flanders
- ...and if at last he should take the advantage the law would give him, he might put me away with disdain and leave me to sue for the little portion that I had, and perhaps waste it all in the suit,
*disdain = a lack of respect
- He looked with a dejected, angry countenance, his great heart was swelled with rage and disdain; to be dragged along with three keepers of Newgate, and put on board like a convict, when he had not so much as been brought to a trial.†
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy