scorning

English

Verb

scorning

1. present participle and gerund of scorn

Noun

scorning (plural scornings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• cronings