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Humiliate vs Scorn - What's the difference?

humiliate | scorn |

In transitive terms the difference between humiliate and scorn

is that humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect while scorn is to refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

As a noun scorn is

contempt or disdain.

humiliate

English

Verb

(humiliat)
  • To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

    • Synonyms

    * debase * disgrace * humble * shame * See also

    Related terms

    * humble * humiliation * humility

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    scorn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  • * C. J. Smith
    • We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
  • To scoff, express contempt.
  • To reject, turn down
    • He scorned her romantic advances.
  • To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
    • She scorned to show weakness.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  • (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  • * Dryden
    • Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
  • (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
  • * Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
    • Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

    Usage notes

    * Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

    Quotations

    * circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * scornful

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