Sekirov Dictionary

scorn

UK /skɔːn/US /skɔɹn/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 7

verb4

•
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength / Will laugh a Siedge to scorne — 1606
•
To scoff, to express contempt.
- For miserie doth brauest mindes abate, / And make them seeke for that they wont to scorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne. — 1578
•
To reject, turn down with disdain.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
•
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- She scorned to show weakness.

noun3

•
Contempt or disdain.
- Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn — 1967
•
A display of disdain; a slight.
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. — 1685
•
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. — 1611

forms

scorn'd · scorned · scornedst · scorning · scorneth · scorns · scornest

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