All 41 Uses of
spurn
in
The Ramayana
- The suitors' puny might I spurned, And back the feeble princes turned.†
Book 1 *spurned = rejected as not good enough
- The damsel's breast with fury burned: She answered, as the gift she spurned: "What time, O simple Queen, is this For idle dreams of fancied bliss?†
Book 2
- Turn from thine evil ways, O turn, And thy perfidious counsel spurn, If thou would fain a favour do To people, lord, and Bharat too.†
Book 2spurn = reject as not good enough
- Now to the exile's lot resigned He left the rule of earth behind: As though all worldly cares he spurned No trouble was in him discerned.†
Book 2spurned = rejected as not good enough
- But man to duty first should turn Whene'er the three are not combined: For those who heed but gain we spurn, And those to pleasure all resigned.†
Book 2spurn = reject as not good enough
- If thou wilt leave thy wife who still Entreats thee with undaunted will, This very day shall poison close The life that spurns the rule of foes.†
Book 2spurns = rejects as not good enough
- Young wives are thankless, false in soul, With roving hearts that spurn control.†
Book 2spurn = reject as not good enough
- So Ráma, sovereign lord of men, Will spurn the sullied kingship then: He born the eldest and the best, His younger's leavings will detest, Turning from tasted food away, As tigers scorn another's prey.†
Book 2
- Those who are firm and ever wise Spurn vain lament and idle sighs.†
Book 2
- That scoffing plea the hero spurned, And thus he spake once more, Chiding, the while his bosom burned, Jáváli's impious lore: "Justice, and courage ne'er dismayed, Pity for all distressed, Truth, loving honour duly paid To Bráhman, God, and guest— In these, the true and virtuous say, Should lives of men be passed: They form the right and happy way That leads to heaven at last.†
Book 2spurned = rejected as not good enough
- The rule by Raghu's children kept Thou must not spurn to-day.†
Book 2spurn = reject as not good enough
- O, for thine aged mother feel, Nor spurn the virtuous dame's appeal: Obey, O Prince, thy mother dear, And still to virtue's path adhere.†
Book 2
- Three several sins defile the soul, Born of desire that spurns control: First, utterance of a lying word, Then, viler both, the next, and third: The lawless love of other's wife, The thirst of blood uncaused by strife.†
Book 3spurns = rejects as not good enough
- With heedless soul he spurned the right, And found in cruel deeds delight.†
Book 3spurned = rejected as not good enough
- Unless your offered lives ye spurn, O rovers of the night, return.†
Book 3spurn = reject as not good enough
- The bonds of law and right he spurned: To others' wives his fancy turned.†
Book 3spurned = rejected as not good enough
- For that dire fiend who spurns control With bloody hand and cruel soul, Has roamed this forest and dismayed The holiest saints who haunt the shade.†
Book 3spurns = rejects as not good enough
- Hence boundless wrath that spurns control Reigns paramount within my soul, And naught but Ráma's death can sate The fury of my vengeful hate.†
Book 3
- I spurn thee: can the altar dight With vessels for the sacred rite, O'er which the priest his prayer has said, Be sullied by an outcaste's tread?†
Book 3spurn = reject as not good enough
- How could her tender bosom spurn Her husband on his home-return?†
Book 3
- And so, I ween, the Immortals turn Cold eyes upon me now, and spurn The weakling prompt at pity's call, Devoted to the good of all.†
Book 3
- Then King Sugríva with his eyes Still trembling with the sweet surprise Of the great joy he could not hide, To Raghu's noblest scion cried: "O Ráma, racked with woe and fear, Spurned by my foes, I wander here.†
Book 4spurned = rejected as not good enough
- The holy man his suppliant spurned, And to his cell in anger turned.†
Book 4
- But Báli, by her prayers unmoved, Spurned her advice, and thus reproved: "How may this insult, scathe, and scorn By me, dear love, be tamely born?†
Book 4
- But thou art wild and weak of soul, And spurnest, like thy race, control; The true and right thou canst not find, The blind consulting with the blind.†
Book 4spurnest = reject as not good enoughstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou spurnest" in older English, today we say "You spurn."
- The cry for help thou wilt not spurn Although no grace demands return: And wilt thou not thine aid afford To him who realm and life restored?†
Book 4spurn = reject as not good enough
- Where, by Agastya's high decree, Mahendra,(704) planted in the sea, With tinted peaks against the tide Rises in solitary pride, And glorious in his golden glow Spurns back the waves that beat below.†
Book 4spurns = rejects as not good enough
- That mother's love thou mayst not spurn: Her only child, return, return.†
Book 4spurn = reject as not good enough
- But soon the baseless thought was spurned And longing hope again returned: "No: Ráma's wife is none of these, No careless dame that lives at ease.†
Book 5spurned = rejected as not good enough
- Or when she spurned his suit with scorn, Her tender limbs were rent and torn.†
Book 5
- Then on the king her back she turned, And answered thus the prayer she spurned: "Turn, Ráva?†
Book 5
- Their threats unfeared, their counsel spurned, The demons' breasts with fury burned.†
Book 5
- But warning cries and words were spurned, And angry taunt and threat returned.†
Book 5
- Come, this degenerate weakness spurn, And bid thy dauntless heart return, For each fair hope by grief is crossed When those we love are dead or lost.†
Book 6spurn = reject as not good enough
- Unwisest he who spurns delays, Who counts no cost, no peril weighs, Speeds to his aim, defying fate, And risks his all, precipitate.†
Book 6spurns = rejects as not good enough
- Disdainful still my love she spurns, Still from each prayer and offering turns, Yet in all lands beneath the sun No dame may rival Sítá, none, Her dainty waist is round and slight, Her cheek like autumn's moon is bright, And she like fruit in graven gold Mocks her(921) whom Maya framed of old.†
Book 6
- The rash like thee, who spurn control, Nor check one longing of the soul, Urged by malignant fate repel The faithful friend who counsels well.†
Book 6spurn = reject as not good enough
- He scorned the sage advice I gave, He spurned me like a base-born slave.†
Book 6spurned = rejected as not good enough
- The lord to whom her fancy turned For whose dear sake my love she spurned, Lies smitten, as he fiercely led The battle, with his brother dead.†
Book 6
- gave, The prudent counsel spurned before, And Sítá to her lord restore.†
Book 6
- a spurned His counsel, and to Ráva?†
Book 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.