He pungently derided attempts made, by pseudoscientists of the obsolete school, to popularize among mistaken but serious secularists the science of yesterday and the destructive criticism of the day before that.
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Derided
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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[…] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
Source: wiktionary
There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.
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