Both Uses
despise
in
The Wanderers
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- But she knew the kinship for what it was, whomever it settled upon, an indelible thing which may come without friendship or even too early an identity, may come even despisingly, in rudeness, intruding in the middle of sorrow.†
- Miss Virgie must despise things more than the meanest people, more than any throwing ghosts.†
*despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)