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Definition of Scorned
1. Adjective. Treated with contempt.
Definition of Scorned
1. Adjective. Hated, despised, or avoided. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ''scorn'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scorned
1. scorn [v] - See also: scorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorned
Literary usage of Scorned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... they offered him quarter ; which, they say, he refused ; answering, " that he
scorned to take quarter from such base rogues and rebels as they were. ..."
2. Poems: And Poems of California and the West by Benjamin Franklin Field (1904)
"THAT WHICH I scorned Love came to a boy in a quiet place And changed his life in
a day, Pride came to a girl with a lovely face And she journeyed far away. ..."
3. The Massachusetts Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers Federation, Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1854)
"Let not a Christian practise what a pagan scorned. DIVISION OF LABOR. IT is
generally conceded that our fathers did wisely in limiting the studies in our ..."
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