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▪ I. taunting, vbl. n.|ˈtɔːntɪŋ|
[f. taunt v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of taunt v.1
1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 57 The erroneous assault me be [= by] tanting and mockrie. 1563Homilies ii. Matrimony (1859) 502 How few matrimonies there be without chidings, brawlings, tauntings, repentings. 1791Cowper Odyss. xvii. 476 A tongue accustom'd much To tauntings. 1809–11Combe Syntax xxvi. 356 'Tis thus I..foil their tauntings with a joke.
▪ II. ˈtaunting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That taunts, or reproaches provokingly.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 19 Railyng rimes, malicious meters and tauntyng verses. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 491 Their taunting Proverb against God is propounded. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 106 They accompanied their notice..with every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. lxii. 155 Cleomenes insulted his disappointment by a taunting letter. |