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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
scorn .
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Examples
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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
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In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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Cruel and implacable, Thou sittest in the heavens men have built for Thee, and scornest them!
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Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest.
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¶ How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire; but as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16. 1999
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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs 9. 1999
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'Son, who art alone my strength and sovereignty, son, who scornest the mighty father's Typhoïan shafts, to thee I fly for succour, and sue humbly to thy deity.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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He answers with proud words, as thou dost, when thou scornest -- father!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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