irrision

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  1. The act of sneering or laughing derisively; mockery; derision. [Obsolete or archaic.] Then he againe, by way of irrision, Ye say very true indeed—That will ye, quoth hee, when a mule shall bring foorth a fole. Holland, tr. of Suetonius, p. 212. To abstain from doing all affronts, … and mockings of our neighbour, not giving him appellatives of scorn or irrision. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 197.

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  1. = French irrision = Spanish irrision = Portuguese irrisão = Italian irrisione, inrisione, from Latin irrisio(n-), inrisio(n-), a mocking, deriding, from irridere, inridere, laugh at, mock, deride, from in, in, on, to, + ridere, laugh; cf. derision.
 

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