scorn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).
Inflected forms:
form: scorns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scorning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scorned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scorned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
gloss: To reject, turn down with disdain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She scorned to show weakness.
gloss: To scoff, to express contempt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
gloss: Contempt or disdain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn
gloss: A display of disdain; a slight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Derived words: laugh to scorn
scornful
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: презрение
roman: prezrenie
lang: Catalan
word: menyspreu
lang: Catalan
word: desdeny
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 輕蔑 /轻蔑
roman: qīngmiè
lang: Czech
word: opovržení
lang: Dutch
word: minachting
lang: Dutch
word: verachting
lang: Esperanto
word: malestimo
lang: Finnish
word: ylenkatse
lang: Finnish
word: pilkka
lang: French
word: mépris
lang: French
word: dédain
lang: German
word: Verachtung
lang: Greek
word: περιφρόνηση
roman: perifrónisi
lang: Hebrew
word: שאט־נפש
roman: sh'át-néfesh
lang: Hungarian
word: megvetés
lang: Irish
word: dímheas
lang: Irish
word: tarcaisne
lang: Italian
word: disprezzo
lang: Japanese
word: 軽蔑
roman: keibetsu
lang: Japanese
word: 鄙薄
roman: hihaku
lang: Korean
word: 경멸
roman: gyeongmyeol
lang: Latin
word: contemptus
lang: Middle English
word: scorn
lang: Persian
word: حقارت
roman: heqârat
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Spott
lang: Polish
word: pogarda
lang: Polish
word: lekceważenie
lang: Portuguese
word: desprezo
lang: Portuguese
word: escárnio
lang: Portuguese
word: desdém
lang: Romanian
word: dispreț
lang: Russian
word: презре́ние
roman: prezrénije
lang: Scots
word: scorn
lang: Slovak
word: opovrhnutie
lang: Slovak
word: pohŕdanie
lang: Spanish
word: desprecio
lang: Spanish
word: desdén
lang: Spanish
word: escarnio
lang: Spanish
word: ludibrio
lang: Swedish
word: förakt
lang: Swedish
word: hån
lang: Tocharian B
word: maṣṣāt