All 3 Uses
spurn
in
Medea, by Euripides
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- Spurn me when I kneel to thee?†
*spurn = reject as not good enough
- A thing Not one of all the maids of Greece, not one, Had dreamed of; whom I spurned, and for mine own Chose thee, a bride of hate to me and death, Tigress, not woman, beast of wilder breath Than Skylla shrieking o'er the Tuscan sea.†
spurned = rejected as not good enough
- I am but spurned awa> And trampled by this tigress, red With children's blood.†
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.