All 6 Uses of
spurn
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
p. 102.4spurn = reject as not good enough
- They spurn and hate me.
p. 103.5 *spurn = reject
- The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
p. 126.9spurned = rejected as not good enough
- But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
p. 140.7
- They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
p. 224.1
- I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
p. 224.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(spurn) reject as not good enough
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, and archaically, spurn can mean to strike or kick.