Scorn vs Forhow - What's the difference?
scorn | forhow |
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
(obsolete) To despise; scorn.
To forsake; quit; abandon; desert.
*1881 , Gregor, Elk-Lore :
To cast off; scorn.
*1768 , Ross, Hclenort :
As verbs the difference between scorn and forhow
is that scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise while forhow is (obsolete) to despise; scorn.As a noun scorn
is (uncountable) 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
*forhow
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- It was believed that handling any bird's eggs in the nest made the bird forhooie them, [...]
- Mind what this lass has undergane for you, Since ye did her so treach'rously forhow , [...]