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ˈscornfulness
[f. scornful a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being scornful; contemptuousness; † contemptibleness.
1535Coverdale Job xxxiv. 7 Where is there soch one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnes like water? 1581Sidney Apol. Poetry (Arb.) 66 The scornefulnes of the action, stirreth laughter. 1606Holland Sueton. 203 Hee exacted also with great skornefulnesse and extremitie, good money rough and new coyned. 1665J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 315 Montrose..receaved no answer from him but what relisht of scornfullness. 1727Bailey vol. II, Scornfulness, contemptuousness. |