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FLOUTING
Verb
flouting
present participle of flout
Noun
flouting (plural floutings)
The act by which something is flouted.
Anagrams
• fling out, infoglut, outfling
Source: Wiktionary
FLOUT
Flout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] Etym: [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.]
Definition: To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.
Flout, v. i.
Definition: To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.
Flout, n.
Definition: A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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