Derision
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"I should like there to be perfect freedom to deride them all [all religions]; I should like men, gathered in no matter what temple to invoke the eternal who wears their image, to be seen as so many comics in a theater, at whose antics everyone may go to laugh."--"Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans", 1795, Marquis de Sade |
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Derision is the act of treating someone or something with contempt and ridicule.
Etymology
From Latin deridere, meaning to mock or deride. Further split up from de-, ridere.
See also
References
- A History of Derision, an aborted project by Arkhive
- Le Rire de résistance, 2007, by Jean-Michel Ribes
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