scorn : Idioms & Phrases
To laugh to scorn
- to deride; to make a mock of; to redicule as contemptible.
- to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise.
Webster 1913
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.
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(a) To disdain. Obs. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6.(b) To feel indignation. Obs.
