All 3 Uses
despise
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- Nothing was colder than his heart, nothing half so dead: he had loved an angel and now he despised a woman!†
Chpt 8 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- ... I despise you!†
Chpt 9despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- ...And, when I stood up, Raoul, and told him that I could only despise him if he did not, then and there, give me my liberty ...he offered it ...he offered to show me the mysterious road ...Only ...only he rose too ...and I was made to remember that, though he was not an angel, nor a ghost, nor a genius, he remained the voice ...for he sang.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(despise) to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)