Scorn

Definitions

1. Contempt or disdain.
   uncountable
2. A display of disdain; a slight.
   countable
3. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Rain⟳ of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn”

“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.”

“Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.”

“Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.”

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