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Definition of Spurning
1. spurn [v] - See also: spurn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurning
Literary usage of Spurning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative by William Gannaway Brownlow (1862)
"... TO ENDORSE US—MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH spurning US. A South Carolina Correspond
rait. WE are receiving quite a number of letters from South Carolina, ..."
2. Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative by William Gannaway Brownlow (1862)
"... THE CHURCH spurning US. A South Carolina Correspondent. WE are receiving quite
a number of letters from South Carolina, and it is only at intervals that ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"... almost every side these affluents come, spurning the solitude of northern
forests, as if in search of some companionship ; and eager, above all, ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"From almost every side these affluents come, spurning the solitude of northern
forests, as if in search of some companionship ; and eager, above all, ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"From almost every side these affluents come, spurning the solitude of northern
forests, as if in search of some companionship ..."
6. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"spurning the idea of being purchased, he replied, " that he was not wor'h
purchasing, hut such as he was. the king of Great Britain was not rich enough to ..."
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