Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoffings
Literary usage of Scoffings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"Dissensions and scoffings.—Holidays.—Popular Sports.—Prohibited Books.—Popular
Reading.—Mysteries and Miracle Phys.—The drama.—Education of the young. ..."
2. Memoirs of Elizabeth Collins, of Upper Evesham, New Jersey, a Minister of by Elizabeth Ballinger Mason Collins (1833)
"It is this path, the holy ancients ever trod to blessedness, in opposition to
the sneers of the unbeliever, the scoffings of the hypocrite, and the laugh of ..."
3. A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of st. Peter by Robert Leighton (1849)
"scoffings and reproaches. Why should not our minds ply and fold to this upon that
very reason which He so reasonably presses again and again on His ..."
4. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1833)
"There did arise licentious unbelievers ; and they no doubt answered one another
in their scoffings. " Where is the promise of his coaling ? for since the ..."
5. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Second Epistle of St. Paul the by Saint John Chrysostom, John Chrysostom, J. Ashworth (1848)
"For, he saith, tell me not of the present things, that is, the reproaches, the
revilings, the scoffings of the many, for the things here are no great matter ..."
6. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Second Epistle of St. Paul the by John Chrysostom, J. Ashworth (1848)
"For, he saith, tell me not of the present things, that is, the reproaches, the
revilings, the scoffings of the many, for the things here are no great matter ..."
7. Elementary and primary views of religion by Tanfield George Headley (1871)
"And when this temptation failed to change his constant mind, then this enemy
sought to drive him from his mission with scoffings and derision at his ..."
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