Jeeringly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a jeering manner.

    "You shall find by common experience how your superstitious false worshipers slight the Word of God; they are above it, they speak jeeringly of the Scripture and of warrants from Gods Word; Oh you must do nothing but you must have Scripture for it: They cry up Fathers and antiquity, and such and such Writers, but for the Word of God they usually contemn and scorn it."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a disrespectful jeering manner wordnet

Synonyms

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gibinglymockingly

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"You shall find by common experience how your superstitious false worshipers slight the Word of God; they are above it, they speak jeeringly of the Scripture and of warrants from Gods Word; Oh you must do nothing but you must have Scripture for it: They cry up Fathers and antiquity, and such and such Writers, but for the Word of God they usually contemn and scorn it."

Etymology

From jeering + -ly.

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