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Webster 1828 Edition


Spurning

SPURNING

,
ppr.
Rejecting with contempt.

Definition 2024


spurning

spurning

English

Verb

spurning

  1. present participle of spurn

Noun

spurning (plural spurnings)

  1. The act of one who spurns.
    • 1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned (page 286)
      But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspʏrtniŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ʏrtniŋk

Noun

spurning f (genitive singular spurningar, nominative plural spurningar)

  1. question

Declension

Derived terms

  • það er nú spurning