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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SNEER, v.i. [from the root of L. naris, nose; to turn up the nose.]
SNEER, n.
1913 Definition
To show contempt by turning up
the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
To inssinuate contempt by a covert
expression; to speak derisively.
I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. To show mirth awkwardly.
[R.]
Tatler.
Syn. -- To scoff; gibe; jeer. -- Sneer, Scoff, Jeer. The verb to sneer implies to cast contempt indirectly or by covert expressions. To jeer is stronger, and denotes the use of several sarcastic reflections. To scoff is stronger still, implying the use of insolent mockery and derision. And sneers as learnedly as they, Midas, exposed to all their jeers, The fop, with learning at defiance, To
utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a
sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a
person.
Congreve.
"A ship of fools," he sneered. Tennyson. To treat with sneers; to affect or move by
sneers.
Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame. Savage. The
act of sneering.
A smile, grin, or contortion of the face,
indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of
contempt.
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