![]() In the King James Version Job 34:7 Psalms 123:4, la`agh is rendered "scorning". In Habakkuk 1:10 (the King James Version) the word translated "scorn" is micchaq, "an object of laughter," "laughing-stock." In Psalms 44:13 79:4 the Hebrew word is la`agh from a root, probably meaning "to stutter," "stammer," for which "mocking" is a better English equivalent. ![]() The two words "thought scorn" in Esther 3:6 represent but one in Hebrew, namely, bazah, for which "disdain" would be a nearer equivalent. The word, outside of the phrase "laugh to scorn," is found only in the Old Testament, and then only 4 times ( Esther 3:6 King James Version, Psalms 44:13 79:4 Habakkuk 1:10), and it represents three different Hebrew words for none of which it is a suitable rendering. It is obvious that scorn may-indeed, it not uncommonly does-arise in connection with an not grounded, arrogant sense of self-esteem. Scorn is a hotter, fiercer emotion than disdain or contempt. This reaction occurs when one is confronted with a person or a proposition that by challenging certain things for itself evokes a vivid sense of one's own superiority and awakens mingled resentment, repulsion and contempt by the hollowness of its claims and its intrinsic inferiority or worse. ![]() It includes a sense of superiority, resentment, and aversion. Where glues are concerned, I, personally, would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces.Fox Talbot connects this English word with the Danish skarn, "dirt," "ordure" "mud," "mire." As distinguished from such words as "mock," "deride," "scoff," all of which refer specifically to the various ways in which scorn finds outward expression, scorn itself denotes a subjective state or reaction.įurther, this state or reaction is not simple but complex.As they undressed and put their worn-out shoes beneath their beds, they again scorned the efforts of the soldier.Many young people scorn polite behaviour as insincere.It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed.My kids used to scorn my politics as right-wing selfishness.Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart.Admired by the young and scorned by the old.Skinner's ideas were scorned by many American psychologists.Marry as I order you or I brand you as wanton for everyone to scorn.Hell hath no fury like a user scorned. ![]()
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