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bescorned

bescorned is the simple past and past participle of bescorn.

Meaning of bescorn

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]...

Questions about bescorned

What is bescorned the simple past and past participle of?
Bescorned is the simple past and past participle of bescorn.

Words near bescorned in the dictionary

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

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