Both Uses of
disdain
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and the boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcate disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil,—before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.†
Chpt 1disdain = a lack of respect
- They have no sordid, selfish, money-getting ways, but rather a fine disdain for mere cash.†
Chpt 8 *
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy