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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