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Webster 1828 Edition


Flouting

FLOUT'ING

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ppr.
Mocking; insulting; fleering.

Definition 2024


flouting

flouting

English

Verb

flouting

  1. present participle of flout

Noun

flouting (plural floutings)

  1. The act by which something is flouted.
    • 2013, Scott Brewer, Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts
      We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.