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Definition of Scoffers
1. scoffer [n] - See also: scoffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoffers
Literary usage of Scoffers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"There shall come in the last days scoffers.—2 PETER, ili. ... Of this character
were those scoffers, predicted by the Apostle to arise in the last days; ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"If to this you add what Solomon says of scoffers, that they are an abomination
to mankind, let him that thinks fit scoff on, and be a Scoffer still; ..."
3. Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire: Containing an Apology for by Antoine Guénée (1848)
"THE following is an extract from an "Address to scoffers," by R. WATSON, DD, FRS,
and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. DR. ..."
4. Lectures on Scepticism: Delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, and in the by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COHE IN THE LAST DAYS scoffers, WA1. ...
They were scoffers at God and religion, walking after their own lusts. ..."
5. Lectures on Scepticism: Delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, and in the by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS scoffers, ... They were
scoffers at God and religion, walking after their own lusts. ..."
6. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"scoffers he scoffs at, liut to the pious he shows favor. 35. Wise men obtain
honor, liut ignominy is the < portion > of fools. 31. Synonymous, ternary. ..."
7. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"... whether our Service or their Doctrine be the more Antichristian ! "—SANDERSON'S
Sermons, vol. 1, p. 189. Advantage given to Irreligious scoffers by the ..."
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