All 3 Uses
despise
in
Notes of a Native Son
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- In my mind's eye I could see him, sitting at the window, locked up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children who had betrayed him, too, by reaching towards the world which had despised him.†
Subsection 1despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- The fact that he did not dare caused me to despise him: I had no way of knowing that he was facing in that living room a wholly unprecedented and frightening situation.†
Subsection 1 *despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- It was the Lord who knew of the impossibility every parent in that room faced: how to prepare the child for the day when the child would be despised and how to create in the child—by what means?†
Subsection 3despised = disliked strongly and looked 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)