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scorn

  [skawrn]
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–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.
—Idiom
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

Related forms:
scorner, noun
scorn⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

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

Antonyms:
3. praise.
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scorn   (skôrn)   
n.  

    1. Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy.

    2. The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision.

  2. One spoken of or treated with contempt.

v.   scorned, scorn·ing, scorns

v.   tr.

  1. To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy.

  2. To reject or refuse with derision. See Synonyms at despise.

v.   intr.
To express contempt; scoff.

[Middle English, from Old French escarn, of Germanic origin.]
scorn'er n., scorn'ful adj., scorn'ful·ly adv., scorn'ful·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

scorn  (n.)
c.1200, aphetic of O.Fr. escarn "mockery, derision, contempt," a common Romanic word (cf. Sp. escarnio, It. scherno) of Gmc. origin, from P.Gmc. *skarnjan "mock, deride" (cf. O.H.G. skern "mockery, jest, sport," M.H.G. scherzen "to jump with joy"). Probably influenced by O.Fr. escorne "affront, disgrace," which is a back-formation from escorner, lit. "to break off (someone's) horns," from V.L. *excornare, from L. ex- "without" + cornu "horn" (source of It. scornare "treat with contempt"). The verb also is attested from c.1200.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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