SPURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spurned mean? 

• SPURNED (adjective)
  The adjective SPURNED has 1 sense:

1. rebuffed (by a lover) without warning

  Familiarity information: SPURNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPURNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning

Synonyms:

jilted; rejected; spurned

Context example:

jilted at the altar

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“She is dead, perhaps,” said Miss Dartle, with a smile, as if she could have spurned the body of the ruined girl.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He spurned him savagely with his foot.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago, would now have been most gladly and gratefully received!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A variety of occupations, of objects, and of company, which could not be procured at Barton, would be inevitable there, and might yet, she hoped, cheat Marianne, at times, into some interest beyond herself, and even into some amusement, much as the ideas of both might now be spurned by her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the course of the tale I had mentioned Mr. Lloyd as having come to see me after the fit: for I never forgot the, to me, frightful episode of the red-room: in detailing which, my excitement was sure, in some degree, to break bounds; for nothing could soften in my recollection the spasm of agony which clutched my heart when Mrs. Reed spurned my wild supplication for pardon, and locked me a second time in the dark and haunted chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)