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disˈdainfulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being disdainful.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke vii. 37 (R.) With howe great stately disdeignfulnesse, and straunge countenance the Pharisiacall sort vsed to turne awai their faces from sinners. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xv. 184 The extream disdainfulnesse that breaths in every page and line. 1719D'Urfey Pills IV. 113 Her Disdainfulness my Heart hath Cloven. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. viii. viii. 287 note, Should she leave her sting in the flower, if its juices are not to her taste, as man doth in his disdainfulness? |