Spurn vs Slight - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
* Shakespeare
To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
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(obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
* Chaucer
* Gay
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
A kick; a blow with the foot.
* Milton
(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
* Shakespeare
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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, chapter=2 Not stout or heavy; slender.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.
* Cowper
To treat with disdain or neglect.
To act negligently or carelessly.
(military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
To make even or level.
To throw heedlessly.
* Shakespeare
The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
* (Benjamin Franklin)
Sleight.
Spurn is a related term of slight.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between spurn and slight
is that spurn is (obsolete) disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment while slight is (obsolete) foolish; silly; weak in intellect.As verbs the difference between spurn and slight
is that spurn is (ambitransitive) to reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn while slight is to treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.As nouns the difference between spurn and slight
is that spurn is an act of spurning; a scornful rejection while slight is the act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.As an adjective slight is
small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.spurn
English
Verb
(en verb)- to spurn at your most royal image
- What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn .
- Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
- I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
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- The miller spurned at a stone.
- The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns .
Derived terms
* spurnerNoun
(en noun)- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn ?
- The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
slight
English
Adjective
(er)- Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.
- Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.
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- his own figure, which was formerly so slight
- (Hudibras)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* slightish * slightly * slightnessVerb
(en verb)- the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies
- (Clarendon)
- (Hexham)
- The rogue slighted me into the river.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* slightinglyNoun
(wikipedia slight) (en noun)- Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
- (Spenser)