scorning

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English

Verb

scorning

  1. present participle of scorn

Noun

scorning (plural scornings)

  1. The act of one who scorns.
    • Thomas Hardy
      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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