Both Uses
ridicule
in
The House of the Seven Gables
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- Clifford have it in his power to make you rich?" cried the old gentlewoman, affected with a sense of something like ridicule at the idea.†
Chpt 15
- To incur the ridicule of the younger crowd, that knew him not,—the harsher scorn and indignation of a few old men, who might recall his once familiar features!†
Chpt 16 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(ridicule) mock (make fun of); or the language or behavior that does so
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)