Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), v. i. To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.]

[OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See Scorn, n.]

1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.

2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer.

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.

Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.]

1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.

And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on to be born. --Emerson.

2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden.

3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. --Ps. xliv. 13.

To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.

To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.

Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)