Crossword-Solution: DERIDER 7 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Captain ---- was the first man who found it necessary to take the dose, and he had been the loudest derider of the organization.

Nevertheless, we are told that, failing in this attempt, the chief priests suborned false witnesses to testify against him: this Sabbath-breaker, this derider of Mosaic formalism, who with his Messianic pretensions excited the people against their hereditary teachers, must at all events be put out of the way.

Derider of priests, despoiler of purity, mocker of Holy Church, your impious reign is at an end.” Tressan fell back aghast, his face blenching to the lips; for if justice was at hand for her, as the Abbot said, then was justice at hand for him as well.

But when he had mounted and was riding off, the crowd, recovering courage from his remoteness, hurled its curses after him and shrilly branded him, “Derider!” and “Blasphemer!” He rode contemptuously amain, however, looking back but once, and then to laugh at them.

Violent party-men, who differed in all things besides, agreed in their turn to show particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his country, till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impunity, but triumphs in his dignity and preferment.