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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
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            And wandered backward as in scorn,
            To wait an aeon to be born.           --Emerson.
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   2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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            Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
            But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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            Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
            and a derision to them that are round about us.
                                                  --Ps. xliv.
                                                  13.
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   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.
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   Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
        dishonor; mockery.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Think \Think\, v. t.
   1. To conceive; to imagine.
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            Charity . . . thinketh no evil.       --1 Cor. xiii.
                                                  4,5.
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   2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]
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            So little womanhood
            And natural goodness, as to think the death
            Of her own son.                       --Beau. & Fl.
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   3. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
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            Nor think superfluous other's aid.    --Milton.
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   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.]
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