All 3 Uses of
spurn
in
Faust -- Part 1 -- translated by Theil
- The time already I discern, When thee all honest folk will spurn, And shun thy hated form to meet, As when a corpse infects the street.†
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- Change him again into his favourite shape, that he may crouch on his belly before me in the dust, whilst I spurn him with my foot, the reprobate!†
- A rapture I never again shall prove; Methinks I would force myself on thee, love, And thou dost spurn me, and back retreat— Yet 'tis thyself, thy fond kind looks I see.†
Definition:
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(spurn) reject as not good enough