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scorner|ˈskɔːnə(r)|
[f. scorn v. + -er1.]
1. One who scorns, derides, mocks or contemns; esp. one who scoffs at religion.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4934 Lyers, robbours, and lechours, Skorners, and also auoutours. c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 357 The fesaunt skornere of the cok be nyghte. c1440Promp. Parv. 450/1 Scornare, derisor. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xx. 35 Be nocht in countenance ane skornar, nor by luke. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 640/1 Very present in perrills, very great scorners of death. 1657Penit. Conf. ix. 291 As Apes are inimical imitators of mens actions, so do skorners usually act. 1651Baxter Saints' Rest iii. (ed. 2) 43 The vilest..scorner at Godliness. 1713Berkeley Guardian No. 3 ⁋1 Whatever one of these Scorners may think, they certainly want Parts to be Devout. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. ii. (1907) I. 24 From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton, in his latter day, had his scorners and detractors. 1820Shelley To Skylark 100 Thou scorner of the ground! 1847Tennyson Princess iv. 402 Not a scorner of your sex But venerator.
b. Phr. seat (chair, stool) of the scorner, the position of a mocker (a reminiscence of Ps. i. 1).
1589Nashe Pasquil's Ret. C iiij, He roares and he fomes, and sets himselfe downe in the Scorners Chayre. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. viii. 21 Thus I triumphed long in lovers paine, And, sitting carelesse on the scorners stoole, Did laugh at those that did lament and plaine. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. (1790) I. xliv. 377 The frontispiece to the Rules of holy dying cannot but excite mirth even in those who do not habitually sit in the seat of the scorner.
¶2. As a proposed term of rhetoric: see quot.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 219 Yee haue another figure much like to the Sarcasmus, or bitter taunt..and is when with proud and insolent words, we doo vpbraid a man, or ride him as we terme it: for which cause the Latines also call it Insultatio, I choose to name him the Reprochfull or scorner. |