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▪ I. spurning, vbl. n.1|ˈspɜːnɪŋ|
[f. spurn v.1 Cf. OE. sporning ‘offendiculum’.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1382Wyclif Rom. ix. 33 Sothli thei offendiden in to the stoon of offencioun, or spurnynge. c1400Lydg. æsop's Fab. i. 85 With scrapyng and spornyng al the long day The Cok was busy hym..to feede. c1440Promp. Parv. 470/1 Spornynge, or spurnynge, calcitracio. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Puntillazo, spurning with the feete. 1611Cotgr., Regimbement, a kicking, winsing, spurning. 1648Gage West Ind. 15 All our ships galleries would have been torn from us with the spurnings and blowes of that outragious Golfe. Ibid. 140 Some with blowes, some with spurnings, some with boxes on the ear. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. v, Accelerated by ignominious shovings,..by smitings, twitchings,—spurnings à posteriori. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xviii. (1876) 204 There is love instead of spurning for him.
▪ II. † ˈspurning, vbl. n.2 Obs.—1
[f. spurn v.2]
Spurring.
1672Chaucer's Ghoast 114 Then was there hot spurning and plucking up of Horses, and right so they came to the Fire.
▪ III. ˈspurning, ppl. a.
[f. spurn v.1 Cf. OE. spornende stumbling.]
That spurns.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 135 A Bull he bred With spurning Heels, and with a butting Head. 1788Burns Ep. R. Graham v, Mark how their lofty independent spirit Soars on the spurning wing of injur'd merit! |