Crossword-Solution: RIDICULERS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Deists in our days, who reject revelation when offered to them, are not such men as Socrates and Cicero were; but, under pretence of Deism, it is plain they are generally ridiculers of all that is truly excellent in natural religion itself.

Piqued with Akenside for some reflections against Scotland, Smollett has exhibited a man of great genius and virtue as a most ludicrous personage; and who can discriminate, in the ridiculous physician in "Peregrine Pickle," what is real from what is fictitious?[80] The banterers and ridiculers possess this provoking advantage over sturdy honesty or nervous sensibility--their amusing fictions affect the world more than the plain tale that would put them down.

Not that the legitimate use of RIDICULE is denied: the wisest men have been some of the most exquisite ridiculers; from Socrates to the Fathers, and from the Fathers to Erasmus, and from Erasmus to Butler and Swift.

Ridiculers would have taken base advantage of her modesty; her sportive manner of equality would have invited impertinence; she would have ended in losing every vestige of power.

Such was the pioneer whose ideas regarding the position of women are embodied chiefly in a treatise entitled: "_De L'Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes_" and in the "_Grief des Dames_", and further alluded to in her preface to the 1595 edition of Montaigne's _Essays_ and in a prose "_Apology_", intended to disarm her ridiculers, in which she protests against being disregarded merely on account of her womanhood.