scorn
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Alteration of Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
scorn (third-person singular simple present scorns, present participle scorning, simple past and past participle scorned)
- (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt
- (transitive) To reject, turn down
- He scorned her romantic advances.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:despise
[edit] Translations
to feel contempt or disdain for something or somebody
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to scoff or express contempt
to reject
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[edit] Noun
scorn (countable and uncountable; plural scorns)
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
- (countable) A display of disdain; A slight.
[edit] Usage notes
- Scorn is often used in the phrases pour scorn on and heap scorn on.
[edit] Quotations
- circa 1605: The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
- 1967, Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:contempt
[edit] Translations
contempt, disdain
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