Definitions
reject with contempt
Word origin
From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Used in a sentence
“to spurn at your most royal image”
“What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.”
“Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.”
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01“Reject with contempt”5 letters
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