資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
mock.]
1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on
to be born. --Emerson.
2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the
fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden.
3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
--Ps. xliv.
13.
{To think scorn}, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.
{To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to make a mock of; to
ridicule as contemptible.
Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
dishonor; mockery.
Think \Think\, v. t.
1. To conceive; to imagine.
Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii.
4,5.
2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]
So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to
think the death Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl.
3. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton.
{To think much}, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.]
``[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.'' --Milton.
{To think scorn}.
(a) To disdain. [Obs.] ``He thought scorn to lay hands on
Mordecai alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.
(b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]