All 3 Uses
despise
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Harriet Tubman, by Petry
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- At first Harriet worked in his house, doing the housework that she despised.†
Chpt 8 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- She had it read to her over and over again, until she knew parts of it by heart: "....I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons......I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong but right......"†
Chpt 20
- She resolved to do something in memory of Captain John Brown, something, she did not know what, "in behalf of God's despised poor.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)