Word Meanings - OUTSCORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.

Related words: (words related to OUTSCORN)

• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• CONFRONTE
  See AFFRONTé
• SCORNY
  Deserving scorn; paltry.
• CONFRONTMENT
  The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
• SUBDUEMENT
  Subdual. Shak.
• SUBDUE
  1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
• CONFRONTER
  One who confronts. A confronter in authority. Speed.
• SCORN
  eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern to mock; but 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which aprings from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. Scorn at first makes after love
• SCORNFUL
  1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. 2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak. Syn.
• SUBDUER
  One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.
• CONFRONTING
  dealing with directly; taking the bull by the horns. Syn. -- braving, coping with, grappling, tackling.
• SUBDUED
  1. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild. 2. Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• OUTSCORN
  To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.