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SPURNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
Example:
jilted at the altar
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb spurn
Context examples:
They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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