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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spurn \Spurn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spurned}; p. pr & vb n.
{Spurning}.] [OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over
AS spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS & OHG.
spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr.
sphur to jerk, to push [root]171. See {Spur}.]
1. To drive back or away as with the foot; to kick.
[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
--Chaucer.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way --Shak.
2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept to
treat with contempt.
What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of
knighthood, I disdain and spurn. --Shak.
Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they
find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid
them at their master's feet. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spurn \Spurn\, v. i.
1. To kick or toss up the heels.
The miller spurned at a stone. --Chaucer.
The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay.
2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything to make
contemptuous opposition or resistance.
Nay, more to spurn at your most royal image.
--Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spurn \Spurn\, n.
1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.]
What defence can properly be used in such a
despicable encounter as this but either the slap or
the spurn? --Milton.
2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
The insolence of office and the spurns That patient
merit of the unworthy takes --Shak.
3. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding
mass.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spurn
v : reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: {reject},
{freeze off}, {scorn}, {pooh-pooh}, {disdain}, {turn
down}]
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