scornern.
/ˈskɔːnə/, U.S. /ˈskɔrnər/ 1.
a. One who scorns, derides, mocks or contemns; esp. one who scoffs at religion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > contemptuous person
scorner1303
despisera1340
contemnera1522
contemnor1535
contemptor1559
disdainer1580
misprizer1582
despiter1601
disesteemer1611
slighter1646
cheapener1846
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules
scorner1303
bourder1330
mower1440
mockera1460
subsannator1509
hickscorner?1515
derider1543
illuder?1550
bobber1576
flouter1581
frumper1589
deluder1592
flirt1602
fleerera1627
ridiculer1681
trotter1818
finger pointer1912
snook-cocker1965
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules > one who derides morality or religion
scorner1651
scoffer1691
society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] > person
wanbelieverc1440
unbeliever1526
infidela1530
nullifidian1564
atheist1571
sceptic1638
disbeliever1648
non-believer1649
scorner1651
scoffer1691
sceptic-Christian1711
nothingarian1776
nothingist1797
no-religionist1827
nihilist1854
netheist1855
non-theist1857
agnostic1869
nescient1872
post-Christian1886
bush baptist1902
no-Goddite1952
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4934 Lyers, robbours, and lechours, Skorners, and also auoutours.
c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 357 The fesaunt skornere of the cok be nyghte.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 450/1 Scornare, derisor.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 265 Be nocht in countenance ane skornar nor by luke.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 51 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Very present in perils, very great scorners of death.
1651 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. 43 The vilest..scorner at Godliness.
1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne ix. 291 As Apes are inimical imitators of mens actions, so do skorners usually act.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 2/1 Whatever one of these Scorners may think, they certainly want Parts to be Devout.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1907) I. ii. 24 From others only do we derive our knowledge that Milton, in his latter day, had his scorners and detractors.
1820 P. B. Shelley To Skylark in Prometheus Unbound 206 Thou scorner of the ground.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 86 Not a scorner of your sex But venerator.
b. seat (chair, stool) of the scorner, the position of a mocker (a reminiscence of Psalm i. 1).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules > position of
seat (chair, stool) of the scorner1589
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Civ He roares and he fomes, and sets himselfe downe in the Scorners Chayre.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff6 Thus I triumphed long in louers paine, And sitting carelesse on the scorners stoole, Did laugh at those that did lament and plaine. View more context for this quotation
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings (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. 1589.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > euphemism > disparagement or ridicule
scorner1589
diasyrm1678
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 175 Yee haue another figure much like to the Sarcasmus, or bitter taunt..and is when with proud and insolent words, we do 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.
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