LekhoriLekhoriTo reject, turn down.
He scorned her romantic advances.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
She scorned to show weakness.
Contempt or disdain.
Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn
A display of disdain; a slight.
Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (f...
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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.
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.