irrision
English
Etymology
From Latin irrīsiō, from irrīdēre, present active infinitive of irrīdeō (“I laugh at”); ir- (“in”) + rīdeō (“I laugh”): compare French irrision.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɪʒən/
Noun
irrision (countable and uncountable, plural irrisions)
- (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
- This being spoken scopticè, or by way of irrision.
- 1630, John Donne, Sermon Preached at Whitehall
- From thence he was carried back to Jerusalem, first to Annas, then to Caiaphas, and (as late as it was) then he was examined and buffeted, and delivered over to the custody of those officers from whom he received all those irrisions […]
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