bescorn

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verb

To treat with scorn.

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Meanings

verbbescorn (third-person singular simple present bescorns, present participle bescorning, simple past and past participle bescorned)

present singular third person bescorns · participle present bescorning · participle past bescorned · past bescorned

  1. obsoleteTo treat with scorn.

    Then was he bescorned.

    1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC

Origin

From be- + scorn.

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