Scorn vs Dismiss - What's the difference?
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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
(senseid)(lb) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
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(lb) To order to leave.
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(lb) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
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(lb) To reject; to refuse to accept.
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*:"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
To get a batsman out.
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To give someone a red card; to send off.
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In transitive terms the difference between scorn and dismiss
is that scorn is to refuse to do something, as beneath oneself while dismiss is to reject; to refuse to accept.As a noun scorn
is contempt or disdain.scorn
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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.
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 alsoDerived terms
* scornfulAnagrams
*dismiss
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