scorn

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (transitive)To reject, turn down with disdain.

   “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.”

3. (transitive)To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

   “She scorned to show weakness.”

4. (intransitive)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.”

noun

1. (uncountable)Contempt or disdain.

   “Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn”

2. (countable)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.”

3. (countable)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.”