SPURN, v.t. [L., spur, kicking.] 1. To kick; to drive back or away, as with the foot.2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept. What multitudes of rational beings spurn the offers of eternal happiness!3. To treat with contempt.SPURN, v.i. 1. To manifest disdain in rejecting any thing; as, to spurn at the gracious offers of pardon.2. To make contemptuous opposition; to manifest disdain in resistance.Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image.3. To kick or toss up the heels.The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.SPURN, n. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.
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