Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sneering or laughing derisively; mockery; derision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of laughing at another; derision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
laughing at another;derision .
Etymologies
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Latin irrisio, from irridere, irrisum, to laugh at; prefix ir- in + ridere to laugh: compare French irrision.
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Examples
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Grindal describes him as "sophistical, disdainful, and illuding arguments with irrision, when he was not able to solute the same by learning", and adds that "his great anchor-hold was in urging the literal sense of hoc est corpus meum, thereby to prove transubstantiation".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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