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Mockeries

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mockery \Mock"er*y\, n.; pl. {Mockeries}. [F. moquerie.]
   1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by
      mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of
      earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

            It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows
            malicious mockery.                    --Shak.

            Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to
            look more like a mockery upon devotion than any
            solemn application of the mind to God. --Law.

            And bear about the mockery of woe.    --Pope.

   2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous
      merriment; derision; ridicule.

            The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. --Spenser.

   3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.

            The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a
            mockery.                              --2 Macc.
                                                  viii. 17.
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