Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Contempt; mockery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Contempt; scorn.

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  • noun obsolete Contempt; mockery; scorn.

Etymologies

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From Middle English hething, from Old Norse hæðing ("a scoffing"), from Old Norse háðung ("scorn, shame, disgrace").

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