Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who spurns or rejects.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who spurns.

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  • noun One who spurns.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt

Etymologies

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spurn +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Adelaide thought not; she thought it, on the contrary, an admirable device to "save the face" of a mercenary lover posing as a sentimentalist and money-spurner.

    The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

  • "I am neither a condemner nor a spurner," Malchus said indignantly;

    The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal 1867

  • O spurner of my love I ne'er of thee so hard would deem * That I of thee should be despised, of thee my property.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • O spurner of my love I ne’er of thee so hard would deem

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Believing with great reason, that they can never remove themselves too far from its savage principles, the system that serves for the basis of such a creed, becomes as odious as the superstition itself; they feel that terrific systems can only be detailed by cruel ministers; these become detestable objects to every enlightened, to every honest mind, in which either the love of equity, or the sacred fire of freedom resides; to every one who is the advocate of humanity -- the indignant spurner of tyranny.

    The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

  • a clay, or of the world, that spurner of living, and patron of dead merit?

    Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804

  • I did not dream of this; who could have thought that a lad of your age would have been a spurner of the gods? "

    The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal 1867

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