Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scorns; a despiser.
- noun A scoffer; a derider; one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.
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- noun One who
scorns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression
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Examples
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A scorner is one that not only makes a jest of God and religion, but bids defiance to the methods employed for his conviction and reformation, and, as an evidence of that, 1.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Not so those hard ones: they imported wholesale by his predecessor Augustus, who was anxious to be known as a scorner of luxury (a favourite pose with monarchs), yet spent incalculable sums on ornamental stones both for public and private ends.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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In those admirable pieces does his Majesty discover this new opinion of his political security, in having the chair of the scorner, that is, the discipline of atheism, and the block of regicide, set up by his side, elevated on the same platform, and shouldering, with the vile image of their grim and bloody idol, the inviolable majesty of his throne?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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EZ, the great enabler, the scorner of Blind Following, becomes positively Delphic when it comes to the Surprises.
Laetare Sunday Jean 2009
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You shall be the scorner of matter, and I the master of matter.
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EZ, the great enabler, the scorner of Blind Following, becomes positively Delphic when it comes to the Surprises.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jean 2009
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Linus: rounder of numbers, baker of pies, scorner of mesh.
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