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Language: Old English
Origin: spurnan

spurn

 verb
     
spurn [transitive]
literary to refuse to accept something or someone, especially because you are too proud:
She spurned all offers of help.
a spurned lover
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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