Definition of Spurns. Meaning of Spurns. Synonyms of Spurns

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Definition of Spurns

Spurn
Spurn Spurn, v. i. 1. To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. --Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay. 2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image. --Shak.
Spurn
Spurn Spurn, n. 1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.] What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn? --Milton. 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. --Shak. 3. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Meaning of Spurns from wikipedia

- Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms...
- The Spurn Lightship (LV No. 12) is a lightvessel (i.e. a ship used as a lighthouse), previously anc****d in Hull Marina in the British city of Kingston...
- Gabler 2006, p. 631. Nicklaus, David (May 8, 2013). "No, Disney didn't spurn St. Louis over beer". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Archived from the original...
- to take over or acquire Burger King during the 1970s, all of which were spurned by Pillsbury. After the failed attempts to acquire the company, the relationship...
- power capacity within a decade, funding emissions-cutting proposals, and spurning a proposed green post-COVID-19 recovery. In 2021, the Johnson government...
- Retrieved October 13, 2017. Yuan, Jada (June 22, 2008). "Olivia Thirlby Spurns Pot, Embraces the Munchies". New York. Retrieved June 24, 2008 Michael Schneider...
- the River Humber. The station was opened in 1810, and was located on on Spurn Point in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Previously operated by Hull Trinity...
- 53°36′07″N 0°08′46″E / 53.602°N 0.146°E / 53.602; 0.146 The Spurn Point military railway was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
- mirror. ****ie impregnates a local young woman called Silvana and then spurns her, causing her to drown herself. Ripley, aware of what has happened, promises...
- unnecessary or undesirable, and is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society. The...