derision
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)
- Act of treating with disdain.
- 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather:
- There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian[1]:
- One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
- Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
- Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of treating with contempt
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Further reading[edit]
- derision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- derision in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
