scorn

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

To reject, turn down.

He scorned her romantic advances.

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

She scorned to show weakness.

To scoff, to express contempt.

For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

Contempt or disdain.

Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn

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.

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

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.