Definition of Deriding

1. Verb. (present participle of deride) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deriding

1. deride [v] - See also: deride

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deriding

derez
derezed
derezing
derezz
derezzed
derezzes
derezzing
derham
derhams
derhotacization
deride
derided
derider
deriders
derides
deriding (current term)
deridingly
derig
derigged
derigging
derigs
derilict
dering
deringer
deringers
derisible
derision
derisions
derisive
derisively

Literary usage of Deriding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... the Pharisees against the Sadducees,) thereby so deriding their languages as scarce they can under. stand one another at this day ; the other his ..."

2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"The thing is further evident from the reply he once made to a stranger in Corinth, who deriding him in a rude ..."

3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Matthew Paris, Roger (1849)
"The bishop blessed some water which was brought him, and when the insane man put out his tongue as if deriding him, he sprinkled some of the water on it; ..."

4. Edwards on Revivals: Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work by Jonathan Edwards (1832)
"The danger of not acknowledging, and encouraging, and especially of deriding, this work. I HAVE thus long insisted on this point, because if these ngs are ..."

5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... that this is fire, others that it is heat : but he, deriding both these conceits, concludes with Anax- agoras, that it is a perfect mind, unmixed with ..."

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