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SCORNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with dislike or contempt
Synonyms:
despised; detested; hated; scorned
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb scorn
Context examples:
Both by nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned him and his love, but he had not forgotten the words; and as long as he and I lived he never would forget them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me—because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction—because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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