All 10 Uses
spurn
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened, spurned by lightshod hurrying feet.†
Chpt 1 *spurned = rejected as not good enough
- A horde of heresies fleeing with mitres awry: Photius and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ's terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.†
Chpt 1spurning = rejecting as not good enough
- Spurned lover.†
Chpt 3spurned = rejected as not good enough
- Spurned and undespairing.†
Chpt 3
- —Say that he is the spurned lover in the sonnets.†
Chpt 9
- Once spurned twice spurned.†
Chpt 9
- Once spurned twice spurned.†
Chpt 9
- But the court wanton spurned him for a lord, his dearmylove.†
Chpt 9
- Why hast thou done this abomination before me that thou didst spurn me for a merchant of jalaps and didst deny me to the Roman and to the Indian of dark speech with whom thy daughters did lie luxuriously?†
Chpt 14spurn = reject as not good enough
- With clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho hornblower blue green yellow flashes Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled, bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again.†
Chpt 15
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.