Spurn vs. Scorn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spurn and Scorn
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Spurn
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.The island is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places.
Scorn
A feeling and expression of contempt or disdain for someone or something
I do not wish to become the object of scorn
Spurn
Reject with disdain or contempt
He spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned
Scorn
Feel or express contempt or disdain for
The minister scorned Labour's attempt to woo voters
Spurn
An act of spurning
It is a spurn of God's sovereignty, and a slight of his goodness
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Scorn
Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy
Viewed his rivals with scorn.
Spurn
To reject with disdain or contempt. ]
Scorn
The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision
Heaped scorn upon his rivals.
Spurn
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
Scorn
The state of being despised or dishonored
Held in scorn by his rivals.
Spurn
(transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
Scorn
(Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.
Spurn
(transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
Scorn
To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy
An artist who was scorned by conservative critics.
Spurn
To kick or toss up the heels.
Scorn
To reject or refuse with derision
Scorned their offer of help.
Spurn
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
Scorn
To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity
"She disapproved so heartily of Flora's plan that she would have scorned to assist in the concoction of a single oily sentence" (Stella Gibbons).
Spurn
A kick; a blow with the foot.
Scorn
(transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
Spurn
(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
Scorn
(transitive) To reject, turn down.
He scorned her romantic advances.
Spurn
(mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Scorn
(transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
She scorned to show weakness.
Spurn
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
Scorn
(intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
Spurn
To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
What safe and nicely I might well delayBy rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
Scorn
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
Spurn
To kick or toss up the heels.
The miller spurned at a stone.
The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
Scorn
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
Spurn
To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
Scorn
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
Spurn
A kick; a blow with the foot.
What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
Scorn
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 æon to be born.
Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes.
Scorn
An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scornBut fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
Spurn
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Scorn
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.
Spurn
Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances
Scorn
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.
Scorn
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.
Scorn
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.
Scorn
Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
He was held in contempt
The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
Scorn
Open disrespect for a person or thing
Scorn
Look down on with disdain;
He despises the people he has to work for
The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
Scorn
Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances
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