different between dishonor vs scorn
dishonor
English
Alternative forms
- dishonour (British)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /d?s??n??/
Noun
dishonor (countable and uncountable, plural dishonors)
- US standard spelling of dishonour.
Translations
Verb
dishonor (third-person singular simple present dishonors, present participle dishonoring, simple past and past participle dishonored)
- US standard spelling of dishonour.
Translations
dishonor From the web:
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- dishonored what counts as a kill
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scorn
English
Etymology
Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-Germanic *skarnjan, which could be from *skeran? (“to shear”), or possibly related to *skarn? (“dung, filth”). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sk??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /sk??n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)n
Verb
scorn (third-person singular simple present scorns, present participle scorning, simple past and past participle scorned)
- (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- 1871, C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- 1871, C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated
- (transitive) To reject, turn down.
- (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (to feel contempt): see also Thesaurus:despise
- (to scoff): deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer
Translations
Noun
scorn (countable and uncountable, plural scorns)
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
- (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Usage notes
- Scorn is often used in the phrases pour scorn on and heap scorn on.
Quotations
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:contempt
Derived terms
- scornful
Translations
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- Crons, corns
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