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bescorn

bescorn verb: to treat with scorn.

Verb

bescorn (third-person singular simple present bescorns, present participle bescorning, simple past and past participle bescorned)

  1. (obsolete) To treat with scorn.
    • Then was he bescorned.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...

Forms of bescorn

third-person singular presentbescorns
present participlebescorning
past participlebescorned
pastbescorned

Origin of bescorn

From be- + scorn.

Questions about bescorn

What does bescorn mean?
Bescorn means to treat with scorn.
What part of speech is bescorn?
Bescorn is a verb.
What is the past tense of bescorn?
The past tense of bescorn is bescorned.

Words near bescorn in the dictionary

  1. besceptred
  2. bescorch
  3. bescorched
  4. bescorches
  5. bescorching
  6. bescorn
  7. bescorned
  8. bescorning
  9. bescorns
  10. Bescot
  11. bescrape

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