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SPURNED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning

Example:

jilted at the altar

Synonyms:

jilted; rejected; spurned

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb spurn

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 Context examples: 

They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)