Definition of Spurne

1. to spur [v SPURNED, SPURNING, SPURNES] - See also: spur

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurne

spurious pregnancy
spurious torticollis
spurious wing
spuriously
spuriousness
spuriousnesses
spurless
spurlge
spurlged
spurlges
spurlging
spurlike
spurling
spurlings
spurn
spurne (current term)
spurned
spurner
spurners
spurnes
spurneth
spurning
spurningly
spurnings
spurns
spurnwater
spurnwaters
spurred
spurred gentian
spurrer

Literary usage of Spurne

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cytezen and Uplondyshman: An Eclogue by Alexander Barclay, Frederick William Fairholt (1847)
"... Doth babble styll, I care not tho ; I have no feare, nor yet wyll flytte, As doth the water to and fro ; Wherfore let my father spyte and spurne, ..."

2. Cursor Mundi: (The Cursur O the World). A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth by Hugo Carl Wilhelm Haenisch, Heinrich Hupe, Max Kaluza (1874)
"... Oft his [fote] sal find a spurne, 4324 Reu his res fan sal he sore, And venge his harm wid foli more. Sua did fis vijf fat i of rede, ..."

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