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scorne

scorne is the obsolete spelling of scorn.

Meaning of scorn

Noun

scorn (countable and uncountable, plural scorns)

  1. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
    • Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn1967, John Berryman, Berryman’s Sonnets, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  2. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
    • VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  3. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
    • Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 44:13

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Questions about scorne

What is scorne the obsolete spelling of?
Scorne is the obsolete spelling of scorn.

Words near scorne in the dictionary

  1. scorious
  2. Scorlibran
  3. SCORM
  4. scorn
  5. scorn'd
  6. scorne
  7. scorned
  8. scornedst
  9. scornee
  10. scornees
  11. scorner

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