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Definition of Jeerings

1. jeering [n] - See also: jeering

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeerings

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jeered jeerer jeerers jeering jeeringly jeerings (current term) jeers jees jeez jefe

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Literary usage of Jeerings

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1. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... worse and harder to bear ; for they ridiculed her, and mocked at her, and ceased neither day nor night from their witticisms and jeerings and laughter. ..."

2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... do not believe will mock us, but their jeerings must not prevent us from atoning for our offenses. ' ' That said, he draws forth a great whip; ..."

3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... worse and harder to bear; for they ridiculed her, and mocked at her, and ceased neither day nor night from their witticisms and jeerings and laughter. ..."

4. Publications by Scottish History Society, Dorset Record Society (1907)
"... are to be treated with reverence, and not subjected to derision and jeerings Of purgatory after this life.—Article Fourth : We must firmly believe that ..."

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