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bescorning

bescorning is the present participle and gerund 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 bescorning

What is bescorning the present participle and gerund of?
Bescorning is the present participle and gerund of bescorn.

Words near bescorning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bescorning (page history and authors); bescorn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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