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To think scorn
(gcide) | Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
mock.]
1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
meanness and unworthiness of an object.
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Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
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And wandered backward as in scorn,
To wait an aeon to be born. --Emerson.
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2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
--Dryden.
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3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
--Ps. xliv.
13.
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To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
alone." --Esther iii. 6.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to
ridicule as contemptible.
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Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
dishonor; mockery.
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To think scorn
(gcide) | Think \Think\, v. t.
1. To conceive; to imagine.
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Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii.
4,5.
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2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]
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So little womanhood
And natural goodness, as to think the death
Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
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Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton.
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To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.]
"[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." --Milton.
To think scorn.
(a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on
Mordecai alone." --Esther iii. 6.
(b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]
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