0 past simple and past participle of spurn
1 to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having:
The theme of ' ' charity ' ' is revisited only to be spurned.
And not surprisingly, intimate local knowledge of the land and its resources is spurned.
The emphasis is on opportunities lost or spurned.
That is, they spurned the idea that market forces determine the outcome of the struggle.
It becomes a tribute spurned, leaving him in mastery.
All of the other contributions employ the ' disembodied sentences ' supposedly spurned by the cognitive-functional approach.
Similarly, the practical mathematical sciences, in which the practices and instruments of the new experimental strategies appeared, have too often been spurned.
They will be handy men, spurned in the workshop, because foremen and workmen will not have anything to do with them.
