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Webster 1913 Edition


Sardonian

Sar-do′ni-an

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Adj.
[Cf. F.
sardonien
.]
Sardonic.
[Obs.]
“With Sardonian smile.”
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sardonian

SARDO'NIAN

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Definition 2024


Sardonian

Sardonian

English

Adjective

Sardonian (comparative more Sardonian, superlative most Sardonian)

  1. (obsolete) Sardonic.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
      He gan with guilefull words her to perswade / To banish feare; and, with Sardonian smyle / Laughing on her, his false intent to shade, / Gan forth to lay his bayte […].