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To laugh to scorn
(gcide) | Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.
escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern
mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to
mock.]
1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that
disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter
meanness and unworthiness of an object.
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Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
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And wandered backward as in scorn,
To wait an aeon to be born. --Emerson.
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2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
--Dryden.
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3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
--Ps. xliv.
13.
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To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
alone." --Esther iii. 6.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to
ridicule as contemptible.
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Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
dishonor; mockery.
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To laugh to scorn
(gcide) | Laugh \Laugh\, v. t.
1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
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Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
--Shak.
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I shall laugh myself to death. --Shak.
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2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
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From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.
--Shak.
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To laugh away.
(a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret.
(b) To waste in hilarity. "Pompey doth this day laugh away
his fortune." --Shak.
To laugh down.
(a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh
down a speaker.
(b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to
laugh down a reform.
To laugh one out of, to cause one by laughter or ridicule
to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or
purpose.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery,
contempt, and scorn; to despise.
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