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...
- 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...
- Calvaruso, Tyler (December 18, 2021). "Four-star WR Tetairoa McMillan spurns Oregon, signs with Arizona". USA TODAY High School Sports. Retrieved January...
- 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...
- office instead of him as was promised. Garrett and Christina counsel him to spurn the endor****t, and that John's old-fashioned message will not help him...
- for most of the nation's history. Though the Founding Fathers generally spurned political parties as divisive and disruptive, and their rise had not been...
- 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...
- Disney ca. June 28, 1929 Mickey flirts with Minnie on the farm, but she spurns him, making him look bad in the eyes of his helper, Horace Horsecollar....