All 5 Uses
spurn
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
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- This boon they seek, that they, my master, may with thee have speech at will: nor spurn their prayer to give them hearing, gracious Hrothgar!†
*spurn = reject as not good enough
- No skill is his to strike against me, my shield to hew though he hardy be, bold in battle; we both, this night, shall spurn the sword, if he seek me here, unweaponed, for war.†
- Greedy and grim, no golden rings he gives for his pride; the promised future forgets he and spurns, with all God has sent him, Wonder-Wielder, of wealth and fame.†
spurns = rejects as not good enough
- Long was he spurned, and worthless by Geatish warriors held; him at mead the master-of-clans failed full oft to favor at all.†
spurned = rejected as not good enough
- — Wandering exiles sought him o'er seas, the sons of Ohtere, who had spurned the sway of the Scylfings'—helmet, the bravest and best that broke the rings, in Swedish land, of the sea-kings' line, haughty hero.†
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.