'To think scorn' definitions:
Definition of 'To think scorn'
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- Think \Think\, v. t.
- 1. To conceive; to imagine. [1913 Webster]
- Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii. 4,5. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. [1913 Webster]
- Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'To think scorn'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an aeon to be born. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act or expression of extreme contempt. [1913 Webster]
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. [1913 Webster]
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. --Ps. xliv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery. [1913 Webster]