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Scorn vs Forhow - What's the difference?

scorn | forhow |

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

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

    Anagrams

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    forhow

    English

    Alternative forms

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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To despise; scorn.
  • To forsake; quit; abandon; desert.
  • *1881 , Gregor, Elk-Lore :
  • It was believed that handling any bird's eggs in the nest made the bird forhooie them, [...]
  • To cast off; scorn.
  • *1768 , Ross, Hclenort :
  • Mind what this lass has undergane for you, Since ye did her so treach'rously forhow , [...]
    English words prefixed with for-