deriding
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Verb[edit]
deriding
- present participle and gerund of deride
Noun[edit]
deriding (plural deridings)
- An act of derision.
- 1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205:
- The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]