Spurn
[spɜːn]
Definition
(v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
(v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
(v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels.
(v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
(n.) A kick; a blow with the foot.
(n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
(n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Kick.[2]. Contemn, scorn, scout, despise, disdain, make light of, look down upon, hold in contempt.
Editor: Nolan
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REJECT]
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Definition
v.t. to drive away as with the foot: to kick: to reject with disdain.—n. disdainful rejection.—n. Spurn′er one who spurns.
Checker: Shari
Examples
- Calot, I spurn you with my foot, and with the words he turned to kick Xodar. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Miss Amy, I know very well that your high-souled brother, and likewise your spirited sister, spurn me from a height. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Well, that gives me sorrow, for I am not made so entirely happy by my marriage that I am willing to spurn you for the information, as I ought to do. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The first I chose was Celine Varens--another of those steps which make a man spurn himself when he recalls them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I will answer for it, that mine thinks herself full as clever, and would spurn any body's assistance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- From the earliest times man learned to spurn the groveling things of earth, and to delight his soul with the marvelous infinity of the sky and its heavenly bodies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Phaidor has glorified you with her love, and you have spurned her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Though life its common gifts deny,-- Though, with a crushed and bleeding heart, And spurned of man, he goes to die! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Emanuel's feet, or confidingly put it into his hands, that he spurned the trust or repulsed the repository. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The tent of the Arab is fallen in the sands, and his horse spurns the ground unbridled and unsaddled. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Brief self-spurning epithets burst from her lips when alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Suzy