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"name": "glossary"
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"3": "scorn",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
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"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
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},
"expansion": "Middle Scots scorn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "gmw-msc",
"3": "scorn"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Middle Scots scorn",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "enm-nor",
"3": "scorn"
},
"expansion": "Northern Middle English scorn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "fro",
"3": "escarnir"
},
"expansion": "Old French escarnir",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "la-lat",
"3": "*scarnīre"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin *scarnīre",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle Scots scorn, scorne, from Northern Middle English scorn, scorne (replacing expected *scarne due to the influence of southern scornen), from Old French escarnir, escharnir, from Late Latin *scarnīre, *scernīre, of disputed origin.",
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{
"form": "scoarn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"head": ""
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"expansion": "scorn (uncountable)",
"name": "head"
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{
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},
"expansion": "scorn (uncountable)",
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}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Scots terms with quotations"
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147,
152
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157,
165
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"english": "We are fools in our help towards Christ, but you are wise believers in Christ; we're feeble, but you're strong; you're held in esteem, but we're viewed with contempt by the world.",
"ref": "1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, I Corinthians 4:10, page 286:",
"text": "We ar fuils for our sairin o Christ, an ye ar wysslike members o Christ; we ar sillie, an ye ar strang; ye ar hauden in honour, an we ar hauden in scorn bi the warld.",
"translation": "We are fools in our help towards Christ, but you are wise believers in Christ; we're feeble, but you're strong; you're held in esteem, but we're viewed with contempt by the world.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Scorn, contempt; the feeling that something is beneath oneself."
],
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"Scorn",
"scorn#English"
],
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"contempt",
"contempt"
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[
"beneath",
"beneath"
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[
"oneself",
"oneself"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
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},
{
"glosses": [
"A snub; a harsh or cold refusal."
],
"links": [
[
"snub",
"snub"
],
[
"harsh",
"harsh"
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[
"cold",
"cold"
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[
"refusal",
"refusal"
]
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skoːrn/"
}
],
"word": "scorn"
}
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