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English → English (gcide) Definition: To think scorn Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.] 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. [1913 Webster] Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on to be born. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 2. An act or expression of extreme contempt. [1913 Webster] Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. [1913 Webster] Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. --Ps. xliv. 13. [1913 Webster] To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. “He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.” --Esther iii. 6. To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible. [1913 Webster] Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery. [1913 Webster] Think \Think\, v. t. 1. To conceive; to imagine. [1913 Webster] Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii. 4,5. [1913 Webster] 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. [1913 Webster] Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton. [1913 Webster] To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] ``[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.'' --Milton. To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] “He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.” --Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]