disdained

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Disdained at home, they turned their faces to the future.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2021

In August 1593 there appeared a posthumous collection of sixty-one sonnets by Thomas Watson, entitled ‘The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained.’

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

His sickened soul, in all its native pride, Swells 'neath the breast that tattered vestments hide Disdained, disdaining; while men flourish, he Still stands a stately though a withered tree.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander

Disdained by one whom she must feel compelled To venerate and to esteem so highly.

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William

Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various