Spurning

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
The act of one who spurns.
"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!"

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of spurn form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

abjuration brush off cold shoulder contempt contradiction cut

Example

"Spurning every gift, he does not let himself be bound."

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