All 10 Uses
scorn
in
Grendel
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- He shook his horns at me, as if scornful.†
Chpt 2scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- "Man," he said, then left a long pause, letting scorn build up in the cave like the venom in his breath.†
Chpt 5scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- "Do!" he said leering scornfully.†
Chpt 5scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- In some way that I couldn't explain, I knew that his scorn of my childish credulity was right.†
Chpt 5scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- It's one thing to listen, full of scorn and doubt, to poets' versions of time past and visions of time to come; it's another to know, as coldly and simply as my mother knows her pile of bones, what is.†
Chpt 6
- Though I scorned them, sometimes hated them, there had been something between myself and men when we could fight.
Chpt 6 *scorned = disrespected
- As if for my benefit, as if in vicious scorn of me, children came from the meadhall and ran down to her, weeping, to snatch at her hands and dress.†
Chpt 7scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Scorn?†
Chpt 7
- I saw his hands unclench, relax, and—torn between tears and a bellow of scorn—I crept back to my cave.†
Chpt 7
- You'll know if it's true, as we heard back home, that I don't know what kind of enemy stalks your hall at night—kills men, so they say, and for some reason scorns your warriors.†
Chpt 11scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)