different between spurn vs neglect

English

Etymology

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnan? (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”). Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spern? (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sp?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
   • Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.
2. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
3. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

   • The myller spurnde on a stone.
     And downe he fyl backwarde upon his wyfe

Derived terms

• spurner

Translations

Noun

spurn (plural spurns)

1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
2. A kick; a blow with the foot.
3. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
4. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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References

Icelandic

Noun

spurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir)

1. Used in set phrases

   Ég hafði spurnir af Ara.

   I received news of Ari.

Declension

Derived terms

• afspurn

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from spurnen.

Alternative forms

• sporn, spurne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spurn/

Noun

spurn

1. (rare) A stumbling; a collapse.
2. (rare) A strike or blow using one's feet.

Descendants

• English: spurn

References

• “spurn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

Verb

spurn

1. Alternative form of spurnen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negl?ctus, perfect passive participle of negleg? (“make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), a variant of necleg?, itself from nec (“not”) + leg? (“pick up, select”). Recorded since 1529, as noun since 1588.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n???l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

neglect (third-person singular simple present neglects, present participle neglecting, simple past and past participle neglected)

1. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
2. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

3. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

Synonyms

• (fail to care for): let slide
• (to omit to notice): disregard, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
• (failure due to carelessness): fail, forget

Antonyms

• (fail to care for): care, mind, reck; see also Thesaurus:care
• (to omit to notice): consider, notice, regard; see also Thesaurus:pay attention

Derived terms

Related terms

• negligee
• negligent
• negligence

Translations

Noun

neglect (countable and uncountable, plural neglects)

1. The act of neglecting.
2. The state of being neglected.
3. Habitual lack of care.

Synonyms

• carelessness
• negligence

Antonyms

• consideration
• notice
• regard

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