Ire vs Scorn - What's the difference?
ire | scorn |
(literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
To anger; to fret; to irritate.
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
In transitive terms the difference between ire and scorn
is that ire is to anger; to fret; to irritate while scorn is to refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.ire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ire, yre, shortened form of . More at (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) ire, from (etyl) , (etyl) aesma'' 'anger', (etyl) ''e?ati 'it drives on').Noun
(-)Synonyms
* fury * rage * wrathVerb
(ir)References
* *Anagrams
* ----scorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
