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scoff

verb intransitive

[Gr. The primary sense is probably to throw. But I do not find the word in the English and Greek sense, in any modern language except the English.]

To treat with insolent ridicule, mockery or contumelious language; to manifest contempt by derision; with at. To scoff at religion and sacred things is evidence of extreme weakness and folly, as well as of wickedness. They shall scoff at the kings. Habakkuk 1:10.

scoff

verb transitive
To treat with derision or scorn.

scoff

noun
Derision, ridicule, mockery or reproach, expressed in language of contempt; expression of scorn or contempt. With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.