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derision (n.)
c. 1400, from Old French
derision
"derision, mockery" (13c.), from Latin
derisionem
(nominative
derisio
), noun of action from past participle stem of
deridere
"ridicule," from
de-
"down" (see
de-
) +
ridere
"to laugh" (see
risible
).
