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    She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me.†  (source)
    spurned = rejected as not good enough
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    Her father—spurned and rejected and lovelorn?†  (source)
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    They resisted the smile and spurned the offer.†  (source)
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    Savannah spurned all suitors—urban developers with grandiose plans and individuals (the "Gucci carpetbaggers," as Mary Harty called them) who moved to Savannah and immediately began suggesting ways of improving the place.†  (source)
    spurned = rejected as not good enough
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    Barb Wiggin, trying to prevent the angel from swinging, turned Harold Crosby away from the shepherds and the congregation—so that he continued to swing, but with his back toward everyone, as if he had decided to spurn the world, or retract his message.†  (source)
    spurn = reject as not good enough
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    He sweeps past, the plow spurning cloudy snow into the gully.†  (source)
    spurning = rejecting as not good enough
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    A man will often love what he spurns.†  (source)
    spurns = rejects as not good enough
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    Sapphira with her husband next, we blame; And praise the forefeet, that with furious ramp Spurn'd Heliodorus.†  (source)
    Spurn'd = rejected as not good enough
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    And steadfast goodly Odysseus answered him: "Most noble son of Atreus, Agamemnon king of men, he yonder hath no mind to quench his wrath, but is yet more filled of fury, and spurneth thee and thy gifts.†  (source)
    spurneth = rejects as not good enough
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She spurneth" in older English, today we say "She spurns."
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    But thou art wild and weak of soul, And spurnest, like thy race, control; The true and right thou canst not find, The blind consulting with the blind.†  (source)
    spurnest = reject as not good enough
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou spurnest" in older English, today we say "You spurn."
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    Then, of course, I was swept up in the Jess Clark life-style, so I would have spurned liver sausage even if I 'd remembered.†  (source)
    spurned = rejected as not good enough
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    He was the first commanding officer to spurn such a meeting.†  (source)
    spurn = reject as not good enough
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    He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.†  (source)
    spurning = rejecting as not good enough
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    If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.  (source)
    spurn = kick
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    I know no personal cause to spurn at him,  (source)
    spurn = strike
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