mockage
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mockage (countable and uncountable, plural mockages)
- (obsolete) Mockery; mocking.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- a mockage of marriage
- 1662, The Works of the Great Albionean Divine ... Mr Hugh Broughton, page 409:
- I [...] say the Apocrypha be all lying works or Ironies: mockages of fools.
Further reading
[edit]- “mockage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.