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Look up: Spurn

  1. spurn
    have nothing to do reject or refuse 
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  2. Spurn
    Spurn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spurned ; present participle & verbal noun Spurning .] [ Middle English spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, Anglo-Saxon ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/175

  3. Spurn
    Spurn intransitive verb 1. To kick or toss up the heels. « The miller spurned at a stone.» Chaucer. « The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns Gay. 2. To manifest disdain in ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/175

  4. Spurn
    Spurn noun 1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [ R.] « What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn Milton. 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous t...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/175

  5. spurn
    1. A kick; a blow with the foot. 'What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?' (Milton) ... 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. 'The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.' (Shak) ... 3. ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. spurn
    freeze off verb reject with contempt; `She spurned his advances`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Spurn
    • (v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. • (v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels. • (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass. • (n.) A kick; a blow with the foot. • (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Spurn
    :"Spurn" can have other meanings, see the Wiktionary entry. `Spurn Point` (or `Spurn Head` as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the m--> wi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurn

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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