What is "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.

   Scorn at first makes after love the more.
   --Shak.

   And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on to be born.
   --Emerson.

2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.

   Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
   --Dryden.

3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

   Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
   --Ps. xliv. 13.

   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.

   Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery.

Think \Think\, v. t.

1. To conceive; to imagine.

   Charity . . . thinketh no evil.
   --1 Cor. xiii. 4,5.

2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]

   So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son.
   --Beau. & Fl.

3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton. To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] ``[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.'' --Milton. To think scorn.

   1. To disdain. [Obs.] ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.''
      --Esther iii. 6.

   2. To feel indignation. [Obs.]