Spurner

[f. SPURN v.¹ Cf. OE. spornere ‘fullo’ (Ælfric).]

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† 1. One who strikes with the foot. Obs.

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1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 166. Ageynst soft walles spurners spurne and kyck all.

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1611. Cotgr., Regimber, a winser, kicker, spurner.

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2. One who rejects or despises; a scorner.

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1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1880), VI. xi. 420. Far from being a spurner of rules, she had so deep a sense of their worth.

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1880. Tennyson, Battle of Brunanburh, xi. Traitor and trickster And spurner of treaties.

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1899. F. R. Coulson, A Jester’s Jingles, 50.

	Now bold grows the learner,
	Of fear quite a spurner.

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