Both Uses
spurn
in
Oedipus the King
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- My zeal in your behalf ye cannot doubt; Ruthless indeed were I and obdurate If such petitioners as you I spurned.†
*spurned = rejected as not good enough
- I would as lief a man should cast away The thing he counts most precious, his own life, As spurn a true friend.†
spurn = reject as not good enough
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.