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Webster 1913 Edition
Sardonian
Sar-do′ni-an
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
sardonien
.] Sardonic.
[Obs.]
“With Sardonian smile.” Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sardonian
SARDO'NIAN
,Definition 2025
Sardonian
Sardonian
English
Adjective
Sardonian (comparative more Sardonian, superlative most Sardonian)
- (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 […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9: