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derision
English
Etymology
From Old French derision, from Latin d?r?si?nem, accusative of d?r?si?, from d?r?d?re ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??????n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)
- Act of treating with disdain.
- Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
- Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
Related terms
- deride
- derider
- ridicule
- ridiculous
- ridiculosity
Translations
Further reading
- derision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- derision in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Ironside, ironised, ironside, resinoid
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repugnance
English
Etymology
From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p??n?ns/
Noun
repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)
- Extreme aversion, repulsion.
- Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
- Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
See also
- repugnancy
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