Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCORN'ER, n.

1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser. They are great scorners of death. – Spenser.
2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes the mock of sin and the judgments and threatening, of God against sinners. – Prov. i. xix.