scorning
English
Verb
scorning
- present participle of scorn
Noun
scorning (plural scornings)
- The act of one who scorns.
- 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy
- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
- 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy