spurning

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noun

The act of one who spurns.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of spurn
nounspurning (plural spurnings)

plural spurnings

  1. The act of one who spurns.

    But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!

    1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned, page 286

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with spurning

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

spurning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spurning

MLA

“spurning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spurning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spurning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spurning.

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