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scorn

verb
/skɔːn/UK/skɔɹn/US

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”).

  1. derived from escarn
  2. derived from *(s)ḱerd-✻
  3. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut”
  4. derived from *skeraną✻ — “to shear”
  5. derived from *skarnijan✻
  6. derived from *escarnire✻
  7. derived from escharnir
  8. derived from scornen

Definitions

  1. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody

    To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

    • The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne
    • We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

  2. To reject, turn down with disdain.

    • 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.

  3. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

    • She scorned to show weakness.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To scoff, to express contempt.

      • For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

    2. Contempt or disdain.

      • Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn

    3. A display of disdain

      A display of disdain; a slight.

      • 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.

    4. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at scorn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at scorn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at scorn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA