| Pronunciation: | | skorn
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- [n] open disrespect for a person or thing
- [n] lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
- [v] reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
- [v] look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
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| | Synonyms: | | contemn, contempt, contempt, despise, despite, disdain, disdain, disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| | See Also: | | brush off, detest, discourtesy, dislike, disrespect, hate, leer, rebuff, repel, sneer, snub |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
mock.]
1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on
to be born. --Emerson.
2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the
fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden.
3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
--Ps. xliv.
13.
{To think scorn}, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.
{To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to make a mock of; to
ridicule as contemptible.
Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
dishonor; mockery.
\Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorned} (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Scoring}.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF.
escarnir, escharnir. See {Scorn}, n.]
1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of
regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those
who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or
disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.
2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of
insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to
laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.
Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.
\Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), v. i.
To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach;
to act disdainfully.
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And,
now I am remembered, scorned at me. --Shak.
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