Both Uses of
despise
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Perchance, amid their proper element of smoke, which eddied forth from the ill-constructed chimney, the ghosts of departed cook-maids looked wonderingly on, or peeped down the great breadth of the flue, despising the simplicity of the projected meal, yet ineffectually pining to thrust their shadowy hands into each inchoate dish.†
Chpt 7despising = disliking strongly and looking down upon
- Men, if endowed with it by nature, soon lose, forget, and learn to despise it, in their contact with coarser things than flowers.†
Chpt 10 *despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect