scorner

Passion for power: the wicked gadfly which is mounted on the vainest peoples; the scorner of all uncertain virtue; which rideth on every horse and on every pride.

With his air of looking down on the highest, and confidentially inviting you to be of his company in the seat of the scorner he is irresistible; his very confession that he is a snob, too, is balm and solace to the reader who secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise.

Robson, the scorner of the female sex, was not above the foppery of stays.

The scorner of her love should pay the price upon the fiery altar.

But before he died he redeemed his name from the scorner.

And certainly it is little better, when atheists, and profane persons, do hear of so many discordant, and contrary opinions in religion; it doth avert them from the church, and maketh them, to sit down in the chair of the scorners. It is but a light thing, to be vouched in so serious a matter, but yet it expresseth well the deformity.

Let not the light scorners of female fascination erect their ears to listen to a new tale of love which shall serve them for a jest; for Miss Brass, however accurately formed to be beloved, was not of the loving kind.

They can not afford to run the risk of having their hospitality abused by travelers, especially since travelers are such notorious scorners of honest behavior.

Goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal, midfielders Danielle van de Donk and Jill Roord and forward Vivianne Miedema, the national team's all-time lead scorner, all started in the Dutch league and now play for Arsenal in the Women's Super League.

A prudent 19th century woman always kept a supply at hand, leading a Chicago Tribune writer to opine that the practice encouraged poor workmanship in women's clothes: "The greatest scorner of woman is the maker of the readymade, who would not dare to sew on masculine buttons with but a single thread, yet will be content to give the feminine hook and eye but a promise of fixedness, trusting to the pin to do the rest."

(7.) However, Prov 9:7-8 warns against correcting the scorner or the wicked.

Around 1515, Wynkyn de Worde published Hycke Scorner, and, around fifteen years later, he invested in two other titles, Temperance and Humility and The Interlude of Youth.