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Meanings of public derision in English

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Usage of public derision in English
1
These, with more zeal than modesty, Theophilus exhibited in the market-place to public derision.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
2
When the mother died, the village parson was not ashamed to hold Marie up to public derision and shame.
The Idiot
3
An impulse sent her running away from the spot where, it seemed to her, she had invited public derision.
Alice of Old Vincennes
4
Failing that, he would certainly be wrapped round from head to foot in red-hot chains, and thus exposed to public derision.
The Mirror of Kong Ho
5
He deals upon returns, and strange performances, resolving, in despite of public derision, to stick to his own fashion, phrase, and gesture.
Every Man out of His Humour
6
Innocent am I, and innocent was I when I went out a spectacle of public derision, and now when I sit here!
O. T., A Danish Romance
7
Why, so outrageous are your amiable defects that they would be the public derision of your enemies if you had any, Pope returned.
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
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