Scorn

n.	1.	Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. Scorn at first makes after love the more. - Shak. And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an æon to be born. - Emerson.
	2.	An act or expression of extreme contempt. Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. - Dryden.
	3.	An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. - Ps. xliv. 13. To think scorn to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. To laugh to scorn to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible. - Esther iii. 6.
v. t.	1.	To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (skôrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.] I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. - Shak. This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. - Milton. We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. - C. J. Smith.
	2.	To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. - Chaucer. To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. - Shak.

Noun	1.	scorn - lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain
	2.	scorn - open disrespect for a person or thing Synonyms: contempt
Verb	1.	scorn - look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain
	2.	scorn - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" Synonyms: freeze off, spurn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down, reject

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