Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person or thing gazed at with wonder or curiosity, especially of a scornful kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic An object, event or person that is
stared at (orgazed at) by many people.
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Examples
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
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¶ But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Hebrews 10. 1999
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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Nahum 3. 1999
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On the one hand, our author's first readers had been personally made a gazingstock.
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision
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And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010
qms commented on the word gazingstock
The lasses, especially the teens,
Were agog over Jack's magic beans
And made his amazing stalk
The village gazingstock,
Provoking some unseemly scenes.
April 25, 2015