Scorn vs Rebuff - What's the difference?
scorn | rebuff |
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
A sudden resistance or refusal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
* Milton
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To buff again.
As verbs the difference between scorn and rebuff
is that scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise while rebuff is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.As nouns the difference between scorn and rebuff
is that scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain while rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal.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.
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
*rebuff
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud