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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
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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...
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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...
- 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...
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offer to stay at UConn". FOX Sports.
Retrieved 2024-06-10. "Sources:
Hurley spurns Lakers,
stays at UConn". ESPN.com. 2024-06-10.
Retrieved 2024-06-10. "Dan...
- 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...
- Cedar. The
goddess Ishtar sends the Bull of
Heaven to
punish Gilgamesh for
spurning her advances.
Gilgamesh and
Enkidu kill the Bull of Heaven,
insulting Ishtar...
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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...
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equivalent to Inanna,
attempts to
seduce the hero Gilgamesh. When
Gilgamesh spurns her advances,
Ishtar angrily goes to
heaven and
tells Anu that Gilgamesh...
