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What is the noun for scorn?

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scorn
  1. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  2. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  3. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “My voice was filled with scorn for him and his threats.”
      “The was stadium packed with people ready to heap glory or scorn on the players based on their achievements or failings.”
scornfulness
  1. The quality of being scornful.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others.”
      “We admire the purity of Silverman's scornfulness, but we don't want to hang out with her the way we did with Mary and Rhoda.”
scorne
  1. Obsolete spelling of scorn
scornee
  1. (nonce word, rare) One who is scorned.
scorner
  1. One who scorns.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And he, the scorner of women, had chosen her for his homage!”
      “Long ago oppressor and oppressed, prophet and scorner, had been dust.”
      “In them Hogarth the artist and Hogarth the fighter and scorner mingle.”
scorning
scornings
scornees
  1. plural of scornee
scorners
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