deriding
noun1
An act of derision.
- The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205: