All 7 Uses
spurn
in
The Odyssey
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- At first, true, she spurned the idea of such an outrage,
Clytemnestra the queen, her will was faithful still.†p. 116.1spurned = rejected as not good enough - She only spurns her own—
countless Phaeacians round about who court her,
nothing but our best.'†p. 177.4spurns = rejects as not good enough - Just because I am crippled, Zeus's daughter Aphrodite
will always spurn me and love that devastating Ares,
just because of his striking looks and racer's legs
while I am a weakling, lame from birth, and who's to blame?†p. 201.4spurn = reject as not good enough - Now they spurn me, dressed in filthy rags.†
p. 317.7
- Why do you spurn my father so—why don't you
sit beside him, engage him, ask him questions?†p. 458.8 - Now because I am filthy, wear such grimy rags,
she spurns me—your mother still can't bring herself
to believe I am her husband.†p. 459.3 *spurns = rejects as not good enough - She neither spurned nor embraced a marriage she despised,
no, she simply planned our death, our black doom!†p. 472.4spurned = rejected as not good enough
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.