I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

Shak.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with

contempt.

What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I

disdain and spurn.

Shak.

Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find

themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their

master's feet.

Locke.

Spurn, v. i. 1. To kick or toss up the heels.

The miller spurned at a stone.

Chaucer.

The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.

Gay.

2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous

opposition or resistance.

Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.

Shak.

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