Scorn
Verb
Pronunciation: skO:n
Etymology: from Old French escarnir (= to deride), which is supposedly identical with Spanish escarnecer and Italian schernire, but whose origin is uncertain
Third-person singular simple present: she (he) scorns
Indicative past, past participle: scorned
Present participle: scorning
Intransitively:
Obsolete and pristine use: to behave derisively; to mock
Transitively:
First definition: to deride; to make an object of derision. (It is an obsolete and pristine use.)
Second definition: to think (something or someone) unworthy; to feel disdain for.
Antonyms: to honor, reverence, disregard, wish, desire, to overvalue, admire, esteem, venerate, overestimate
Synonyms: despise, contemn, disdain, slight, to undervalue, under-estimate
It may be approximately translated by desdeñar, in Spanish; disdegnare, in Italian; dédaigner, in French.
You have scorned me—you have outraged me—you have not assumed towards me even the decent hypocrisies of prudence—yet now you would ask of me, the conduct, the sympathy, the forbearance, the concession of friendship.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Eugene Aram)
In fine, she said I might leave my cloaths there that evening, but that she would send them to us the next morning; that she scorned the thought of detaining them.
Henry Fielding (Amelia)
The Harlowes are a narrow-souled and implacable family. I hate them: and, though I revere the lady, scorn all relation to them.
Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)
As we wished to be on good terms with all, we sent the hump and ribs to Njambi, with the explanation that this was the customary tribute to chiefs in the part from which we had come, and that we always honored men in his position. He returned thanks, and promised to send food. Next morning he sent an impudent message, with a very small present of meal; scorning the meat he had accepted, he demanded either a man, an ox, a gun, powder, cloth, or a shell; and in the event of refusal to comply with his demand, he intimated his intention to prevent our further progress. We replied, we should have thought ourselves fools if we had scorned his small present, and demanded other food instead.
David Livingstone (Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa)
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Harold)
"Four dollars and eighty-five cents," she announced, giving him a pert little smile. Johnny flipped a small gold piece to the desk and marched off, scorning his fifteen cents change with the air of a millionaire.
B. M. Bower (The Thunder Bird)
Pasture lands that he had scorned at ten cents an acre but a decade before were eagerly sought at two and three dollars, and the cattle that he had bartered away he bought back at double and triple their former prices.
Andy Adams (Reed Anthony, Cowman)
A woman scorned, is a woman to be feared.
Anonymous (Castle… a tale of old Ireland)
[…] I did not scorn her advice.
Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)
[…] he scorns me and despises me for my selfishness and my indifference.
Anne Marsh-Caldwell (Father Darcy)
[…] are my terms scorned or accepted?
Edward Bulwer Lytton (Leila)
***With the prepositions for, immediately or mediately followed by its object (a noun, or a gerund) which is designative of the cause:
On this I sharply reproved him for his heretical ignorance, and he scorned me for my ignorance of the language.
Robert Kerr (A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels)
It would have been natural enough to scorn him for his doubt, to punish him for his neglect, to condemn him for his lack of courage, when a word or two, scarcely a question, would have made everything clear between them.
Edith Barnard Delano (The land of content)
The people who had scorned me for being cheap started flattering me by calling me rich.
Ebony, January 1963
All this backbiting and slandering had effect upon Princess Angelica, who began to look coldly on her cousin, then to laugh at him and scorn him for being so stupid, then to sneer at him for having vulgar associates.
William Makepeace Thackeray (The Rose and the Ring)
***Reflexively:
The season had been unusually hot, and Mrs. Diantha had not spared herself from her duty on account of the heat. She would have scorned herself if she had done so.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (The Copy-Cat and Other Stories)
As badly as she wanted to believe and fantasize that William would take her in, hold her close and protect her, a much smaller, half-hidden part of her still scorned herself for her fantasy.
Elizabeth Lapthorne (Hide and seek)
She scorned herself for being a coward.
Ellen James (The Man Next Door)
“I stand reproved," said Emma, forcing herself to smile more smilingly, and less as if she scorned herself for smiling.
Anonymous (The Unveiled heart)
“She is very beautiful,” said Helen; but there was a proud satisfaction in the tone. It was as if she had said, what she really would have scorned herself for even consciously thinking, much less saying — "but I am more beautiful."
Henry Peterson (Pemberton)
She scorned herself for a delusion which seemed to her now to have been purely pathological.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (The successors of Mary the first)
'Papa, do you know what you are saying?' expostulated Ethel; the audacity of the statement bewildered her; she would have scorned herself for her credulity if she had believed him.
Rosa Nouchette Carey (Heriot's Choice)
He took her hands and kissed them, and he thought, as he got out into the street, that he had felt them tremble. It was a pleasant surprise, on which he felt inclined to congratulate himself.
The knowledge had a quite other effect on his betrothed. She smote her clenched fists angrily together, and scorned herself for the feebleness of her extremities.
Hunt Caffyn (A yellow aster)
He despises that fellow he plays with, and scorns himself for making him his companion.
George A. Aitken (The Tatler)
***The object of the verb may be an infinitive or a gerund, with this semantic implication: to think so ill of (a practice, a possible action) as to be unwilling either to imitate it or to accomplish it; to disdain to do something; to think (it) so unbecoming as to be reluctant to do it
Antonyms: to wish, be willing, desiderate
[…] the little children used to gather round me, and pat me, and pull my ears; and even if they pulled a little too hard, I scorned to complain, or hurt them in return.
Julia Charlotte Maitland (Cat and Dog)
I knows what civility is, and I scorn to behave myself unbecoming a gentleman.
Henry Fielding (Amelia)
Mr. Asid said he scorned to use unnecessary language.
Flit Pseud (The memoirs of Davy Dreamy)
I beg pardon of all the worthy company for speaking this little whisper, which certainly I should scorn to do before ladies, if it had not been a secret.
Fanny Burney (Camilla)
What they called a robber (he said to those who tried him) he was, because he had taken spoil from the King’s men. What they called a murderer, he was, because he had slain an insolent Englishman. What they called a traitor, he was not, for he had never sworn allegiance to the King, and had ever scorned to do it.
Charles Dickens (A Child’s History of England)
Lord Russell might have easily escaped, but scorned to do so, being innocent of any wrong.
Charles Dickens (A Child’s History of England)
Understand now why I scorned to work with such rotten tools.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (What Will He Do With It)
[…] a senator would have scorned to match his daughter with a king.
Edward Gibbon (The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
"The manner, Sir," said I, "in which you spoke that request, made, and will make, me scorn to answer it."
Fanny Burney (Evelina)
Why rest here in idleness, waiting for pleasant weather? My uncle himself would be the first to scorn doing such a thing were the case his own.
Thomas Speight (Under lock and key)
She had never expected to be a listener. Yesterday she would have scorned doing anything so dishonorable, but today –she opened wide her ears.
Richard Mace (The first families)
In his reckless pride Braddish scorned making an appeal for admittance. There were lights in the rooms on the ground floor of the house, and he thought, therefore, that a door might be unlocked.
Arthur Pier (The triumph)
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