Both Uses
spurn
in
Angela's Ashes
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- They resisted the smile and spurned the offer.†
Chpt 1 *spurned = rejected as not good enough
- factory girls who are poor but beautiful in love with sons of earls and vice versa and the factory girl ends up throwing herself into the Thames with the hopelessness only to be rescued by a passing carpenter who is poor but honest and will love the factory girl for her own humble self though it turns out the passing carpenter is really the son of a duke, which is much higher than an earl, so that now the poor factory girl is a duchess and can look down her nose at the earl who spurned her because she's happy tending her roses on her twelve-thousand-acre estate in Shropshire and being kind to her poor old mother, who refuses to leave her humble little cottage for all the money in the world.†
Chpt 6
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.