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scorn

[skawrn]
–noun
1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
2. an object of derision or contempt.
3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
–verb (used with object)
4. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain: They scorned the old beggar.
5. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain: She scorned my help.
–verb (used without object)
6. to mock; jeer.
7. laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride: Her good advice was laughed to scorn.

Origin:
1150–1200; (n.) ME scorn, scarn < OF escarn < Gmc (cf. obs. D schern mockery, trickery); (v.) ME skarnen, sc(h)ornen < OF escharnir, eschernir ≪ Gmc


scorner, noun
scorn⋅ing⋅ly, adverb


1. contumely. See contempt. 4. disdain, contemn, despise, detest.


3. praise.
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