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.†*spurn = reject as not good enough
- 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.†
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.