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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spurn/spɜːn/

▶verb

1 reject with disdain or contempt.

2 archaic strike or push away with the foot.

– derivatives
spurner noun.

– origin OE spurnan, spornan; rel. to L. spernere ‘to scorn’; cf. spur.

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