disdain
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Is disdain a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.Examples: "The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away."; "He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle, Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie, Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie: What will he doe ſupported by a king?"; "Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes."uncountable
2. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.Examples: "Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain."obsoleteuncountable
3. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.Examples: "The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain"obsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.Examples: "When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth."; "The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help."; "The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other."transitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.Examples: "When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?"intransitiveobsolete
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