jeeringly
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English jeering Middle English -ly English -ly English jeeringly From jeering + -ly.
- 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.”
“[…] they turned their Anger into ridiculing the Man, and his Sorrow for his Wife and Children; taunted him with want of Courage to leap into the great Pit, and go to Heaven, as they jeeringly express’d it, along with them, adding some very profane, and even blasphemous Expressions.”