Definition of Spurnings

1. spurning [n] - See also: spurning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurnings

spurlged
spurlges
spurlging
spurlike
spurling
spurlings
spurn
spurne
spurned
spurner
spurners
spurnes
spurneth
spurning
spurningly
spurnings (current term)
spurns
spurnwater
spurnwaters
spurred
spurred gentian
spurrer
spurrers
spurrey
spurreys
spurrier
spurriers
spurries
spurring
spurrings

Literary usage of Spurnings

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

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"So that all the inn seemed nothing else but plaints, cries, screeches, confusions, fears, dreads, disgraces, slashes, buffets, blows, spurnings, ..."

2. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"... twitchings,1 — spurnings d posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated way, emerges, uncertain which end uppermost, man after man in black, ..."

3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... twitchings,—spurnings a posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated way emerges, uncertain which end uppermost, man after man in black, ..."

4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... twitchings, — spurnings a posteriori, not to be named. In this accelerated way emerges, uncer- i Weber, ii. 286. ..."

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