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Spurn   /spərn/   Listen
verb
Spurn  v. t.  (past & past part. spurned; pres. part. spurning)  
1.
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. "(The bird) with his foot will spurn adown his cup." "I spurn thee like a cur out of my way."
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." "Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet."


Spurn  v. i.  
1.
To kick or toss up the heels. "The miller spurned at a stone." "The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns."
2.
To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. "Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image."


noun
Spurn  n.  
1.
A kick; a blow with the foot. (R.) "What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?"
2.
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. "The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes."
3.
(Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.





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"Spurn" Quotes from Famous Books



... of love. I was spurned without a moment's hesitation; all her modesty risen in arms, she reduced me to a mere nothing. What is it? Am I a fool without brains, or has she no heart? What am I fighting against? What are the obstacles in my way? Why does she spurn me? My head is in such a chaotic state that I can neither think, write, nor reason. I only repeat to myself, over and over again, "What is it that ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... that you're older each year than the last; That we all must grow gray, and the wrinkles come fast. Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides: Nor are men over keen to catch charms as they fly. Think of this and be gentle, be loving as I: When your years are maturer, we two shall be then The pair in ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus
... his for life. It is as well to remember that it is just as criminal to attempt to extract money from a guilty as from an innocent person. It is of no use attempting to deal with these cases single-handed. You must not only deny the allegation, but 'spurn the allegator.' Put the matter into the hands of a good sharp criminal solicitor, and instruct him to rid you of the nuisance by ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson
... with wine and wit,— Who brought him to that mirth and state? His betters, see, below him sit, Or hunger hopeless at the gate. Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus? Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel, Confessing ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As ...
— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson


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