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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
deriding en · NOUN
Meanings
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An act of derision.
The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]
1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205:
Forms
deriding en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of deride