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So scoffing in ambiguous words he scarce

Definition
"scoffing, adj." OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2014. Web. 22 October 2014.

That scoffs; contemptuous, derisive
Brutus Buckeye

References

Hume, Patrick. Book VI. N.p., 1695. Print. 

"Thus mocking in words of uncertain meaning"
Ambiguous, Lat. doubtful, that may admit of divers meanings.
Brutus Buckeye


Lanzara, Joseph; Milton, John (2012-05-30). John Milton's Paradise Lost In Plain English (Kindle Location 8883). New Arts Library. Kindle Edition.

(He was being sarcastic.)

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