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noun

Scorn n.

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." "And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an aeon to be born."

An act or expression of extreme contempt. "Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn."

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."

To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone."

To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.

Synonyms: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery.

verb

Scorn v. t. (past & past part. scorned; pres. part. scoring)

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." "This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste." "We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful."

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." "To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously."

Synonyms: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.

Scorn 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."

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Etymology of 'Scorn'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scorn" Quotes from Famous Books

... intolerance and hatred were caused by inequality. The jealousy of the inferior toward his superior; the scorn of the superior toward his inferior. The Have-not envies the Have, and the Have ...

— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett

... refused to fulfil my promise of giving a fourth of the property to the man of wisdom. I offered him only a few small pieces of silver; instead of accepting which, he stood for a few moments in silent meditation, and with a look of scorn said, 'Do I thus receive the fourth part of your treasure which you agreed to give me? Base man, of what perjury are you guilty?' On hearing this I became enraged, and having struck him several blows on the face, ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... boldest eyes regarded him; he saw smiles of scorn, snarling visages, as, with reclining head and lowered lids, his eyes rested on the House: a hard gaze. Unfortunately, his pallor was perfectly obvious, and its significance, the stab being ...

— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel

... knight-hawks, and they have a great number of rich commanderies (fat livings) in your world. Good your worship, said I, make them give us a song, an't please you, that we may know how they sing. They scorn your words, cried Aedituus; they are none of your singing-birds; but, to make amends, they feed as much as the best two of them all. Pray where are their hens? where are their females? said I. They have ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... as has been offered to me beneath his roof—humiliations, endured for your sake, Karen—for yours only! Ah"—releasing Karen suddenly, she advanced a step towards Gregory, with a startling cry, stretching out her arm—"ungrateful and ungenerous indeed! And you find yourself one to scorn my Franz! You find yourself one to sneer at my friends, to stand and look at them and me as if we were vermin infesting your room! Did I not see it! You! justes cieux! with your bourgeois little world; your little—little world—so small—so small! your people like dull beasts ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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