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Disclaim vs Spurn - What's the difference?

disclaim | spurn |

As verbs the difference between disclaim and spurn

is that disclaim is to renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject while spurn is (ambitransitive) to reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

As a noun spurn is

an act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

disclaim

English

(wikipedia disclaim)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
  • * Dryden
    • He calls the gods to witness their offence; / Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
  • * Farmer
    • He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
  • * 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw)
  • *:"I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
  • To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
  • * Milman
    • The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed .
  • (legal) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.
    • (Burrill)

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) (Webster 1913)

    spurn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to spurn at your most royal image
  • * Shakespeare
    • What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn .
  • * John Locke
    • Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
  • To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
  • To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.}}
  • (obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
  • * Chaucer
    • The miller spurned at a stone.
  • * Gay
    • The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns .

    Derived terms

    * spurner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  • A kick; a blow with the foot.
  • * Milton
    • What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn ?
  • (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
  • A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.