scorning

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

scorning

  1. present participle and gerund of scorn

Noun[edit]

scorning (plural scornings)

  1. The act of one who scorns.
    • 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:
      But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
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