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# deride

«deride» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To laugh at something with scorn and mock it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To laugh at something with scorn and mock it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/deride/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Habakkuk the Babylonians mock every fortress, a picture of their proud power that tradition says God will end.

### examples

- And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it. (Prophets HAB.1.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/deride/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deride» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/deride/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.