scoffer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCOFF'ER, noun One who scoffs; one that mocks, derides or reproaches in the language of contempt; a scorner. There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' 2 Peter 3:3.
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