Derision
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| - | + | '''Derision''' is the act of treating someone or something with [[contempt]] and [[ridicule]]. | |
| - | Act of treating with [[contempt]] and [[ridicule]]. From Latin ''deridere'', meaning to [[mock]] or '''deride'''. Further split up from ''[[de-]]'','' [[ridere]]''. | + | ==Etymology== |
| + | From Latin ''deridere'', meaning to [[mock]] or '''deride'''. Further split up from ''[[de-]]'','' [[ridere]]''. | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *[[Caricature]] | *[[Caricature]] | ||
| *[[Pejorative]] | *[[Pejorative]] | ||
| *[[Satire]] | *[[Satire]] | ||
| + | *[[Appeal to ridicule ]] | ||
| + | *[[Defamation]] | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| *''[[A History of Derision]]'', an aborted project by Arkhive | *''[[A History of Derision]]'', an aborted project by Arkhive | ||
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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. [...] I cannot repeat it to you too often: no more gods, Frenchmen, no more gods, lest under their fatal influence you wish to be plunged back into all the horrors of despotism; but it is only by jeering that you will destroy them; all the dangers they bring in their wake will instantly be revived en masse if you pamper or ascribe any consequence to them. Carried away by anger, you overthrow their idols? Not for a minute; have a bit of sport with them, and they will crumble to bits; once withered, the opinion will collapse of its own accord."--"Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans", 1795, Marquis de Sade |
Illustration: Toulouse-Lautrec wearing Jane Avril's Feathered Hat and Boa (ca. 1892), photo Maurice Guibert.
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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
