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spurnings

spurnings is the plural of spurning.

Meaning of spurning

Noun

spurning (plural spurnings)

  1. The act of one who spurns.
    • But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned, page 286

Questions about spurnings

What is spurnings the plural of?
Spurnings is the plural of spurning.

Words near spurnings in the dictionary

  1. spurners
  2. spurnest
  3. spurneth
  4. spurning
  5. spurningly
  6. spurnings
  7. spurns
  8. spurnwater
  9. spurnwaters
  10. Spurr
  11. spurred

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