All 4 Uses

spurn
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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And if it be pain for a mother to be parted from her child, for a man to be exiled from hearth and home, for friend to be sundered from friend, O think what pain, what anguish it must be for the poor soul to be spurned from the presence of the supremely good and loving Creator Who has called that soul into existence from nothingness and sustained it in life and loved it with an immeasurable love.†
Chpt 3

spurned = rejected as not good enough
His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.†
Chpt 4 *

spurning = rejecting as not good enough
Cranly's heavy boots were heard loudly charging across the quadrangle and then returning heavily, foiled and spurning the gravel at each step.†
Chpt 5
I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave.†
Chpt 5

spurned = rejected as not good enough

Definitions:

(1) (spurn)
reject as not good enough
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, and archaically, spurn can mean to strike or kick.