SCORN
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Scorn (sk&ô;rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern&ō;n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.] 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
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Scorn at first makes after love the more.
Shak.
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And wandered backward as in scorn,
To wait an æon to be born.
Emerson.
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2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
Dryden.
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3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Ps. xliv. 13.
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To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. “He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.” Esther iii. 6. -- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.
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Syn. -- Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery.
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Scorn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk&ô;rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See Scorn, n.] 1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
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I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.
Shak.
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This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,
Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
Milton.
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We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
C. J. Smith.
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2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
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His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,
Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.
Chaucer.
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To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.
Shak.
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Syn. -- To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.
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Scorn (sk&ô;rn), v. i. To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
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He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.
Shak.
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