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Dereliction Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers.Burke. A total dereliction of military duties.Sir W. Scott. Dereligionize He would dereligionize men beyond all others.De Quincey. Dereling Dereling Derf Deride And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him.Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides.Milton. Syn. To mock; laugh at; ridicule; insult; taunt; jeer; banter; rally. To Deride, Ridicule, Mock, Taunt. A man may ridicule without any unkindness of feeling; his object may be to correct; as, to ridicule the follies of the age. He who derides is actuated by a severe a contemptuous spirit; as, to deride one for his religious principles. To mock is stronger, and denotes open and scornful derision; as, to mock at sin. To taunt is to reproach with the keenest insult; as, to taunt one for his misfortunes. Ridicule consists more in words than in actions; derision and mockery evince themselves in actions as well as words; taunts are always expressed in words of extreme bitterness. Derider Deridingly Derision He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision.Ps. ii. 4. Satan beheld their plight,Milton. I was a derision to all my people.Lam. iii. 14. |
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