From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]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 aeon 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk[^o]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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