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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /skɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɔɹn/
  • 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)n

動詞

scorn (三人称単数 現在形 scorns, 現在分詞 scorning, 過去形および過去分詞形 scorned)

1. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 150:

     The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne

   • 1871, C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:

     We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

2. (transitive) To reject, turn down.

   He scorned her romantic advances.

   • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

     Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

3. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

   She scorned to show weakness.

4. (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
   • 1578–1579, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale. [...] Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Ladie Compton and Mountegle”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the Next Page Maketh Mention‎^[1], London: Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, →OCLC:

     For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (to feel contempt): see also Thesaurus:despise
• (to scoff): deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer

名詞

scorn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 scorns)

1. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
   • 1967, John Berryman, Berryman’s Sonnets, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

     Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn

2. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 100, column 1:

     VVith ſcoffs and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.

   • 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:

     Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

3. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 44:13:

     Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

使用する際の注意点

• Scorn is often used in the phrases pour scorn on and heap scorn on.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:contempt

派生語

• laugh to scorn
• scornful

参照

• 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

アナグラム

• Crons, corns