0 to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having: --
The olive branch has been held out by this side, and you have spurned it.
There are those who would despise and spurn them, who would trample upon them and take joy in doing it.
They will be handy men, spurned in the workshop, because foremen and workmen will not have anything to do with them.
It is unthinkable to spurn it in this way.
The largest group which is generally spurning the move towards the loss of the final -al is the group ending in -logical, such as archaeological, biological, ecological, meteorological, psychological, theological.
Similarly, the practical mathematical sciences, in which the practices and instruments of the new experimental strategies appeared, have too often been spurned.
Many citizens spurn discussions because they strongly dislike the fundamental act of making their preferences known to others.
All of the other contributions employ the ' disembodied sentences ' supposedly spurned by the cognitive-functional approach.
