Taunt

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Taunt - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

T`AUNT, v.t.

1. To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid.

When I had at my pleasure taunted her--

2. To exprobrate; to censure.

Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase,and taunt my faults.

T`AUNT, n. Upbraiding words; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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