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ˈtauntingly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a taunting manner; with derisive or insulting reproach.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Peter 10 Not disdeynfully, nor tauntynglye as though you were offended at them. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. i. 114 (Fol. 2) The belly..tantingly replyed To' th' discontented Members. 1646J. Whitaker Uzziah 13 [It] was tauntingly spoke of Christ, He saved others, himself he cannot save. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. v. (1877) 116 The question has often been asked tauntingly—Why has not Christianity done away with war?
So ˈtauntingness. rare—0.
1727Bailey vol. II, Tauntingness, a sharp, haughty, biting Reproachfulness. 1731Ibid., Tauntingness, Raillery. |