What is "spurned"

Spurn \Spurn\ (sp[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spurned (sp[^u]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning.] [OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, AS. spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr. sphur to jerk, to push.

1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

   [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
   --Chaucer.

   I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
   --Shak.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

   What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
   --Shak.

   Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
   --Locke.

vb. (en-past of: spurn)

adj. rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar" [syn: jilted, rejected]