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...
- 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...
- undesirable or evil. A libertine is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society. The...
- Christianity, some ascetics are referred to as Fools for Christ, whereby they spurn the convention of society in pursuit of living a more wholly Christian life...
- love, however the singer is happy because it loves more than one heart and spurns the harsh laws and rigours of love (as defined by Cupid). The work is scored...
- Zone. In this episode, a young woman, whose name sounds like "Jezebel", spurned by the man she loves, becomes a witch in order to make him love her. This...
- befriended many intellectuals, sat for the finest artists of the age, and spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Augustus of Prussia. A native of Lyon...
- lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken. The song is credited to Sadie Vimmerstedt...
- Arcade or Archade. Though he wins her a golden circlet in a tournament, she spurns him, holes up in her castle refusing to see him, and sends her knights daily...