scorn
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Alteration of Old French escarn (cognate with Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /skɔ:n/, SAMPA: /skO:n/
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)n
[edit] Verb
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to 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
- She scorned his 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
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scorn (countable and uncountable; plural scorns)
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain towards a despicable or unworthy person
- (countable) A display of disdain; A slight.
[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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