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Definition of Mockeries
1. mockery [n] - See also: mockery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockeries
Literary usage of Mockeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Freemen may sound the solemn dirge—the funeral chant be spoken; The quiet of the
dead is not by idle mockeries broken 1 Yet, let Tennessee's banner droop ..."
2. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"... truth of his analogy tormented Father Castel, it did not deter him from riding
his hobbies and making of himself a target for the mockeries of Voltaire. ..."
3. Ruskin: A Study in Personality by Arthur Christopher Benson (1911)
"They did not see that he was being crucified. They thought his agonised words
the fantastic mockeries of a man who had lost his temper on a gigantic scale ..."
4. Notes on Politics & History by John Morley (1914)
"Don Juan ; or the mockeries of Heine ; least of all with Swift,—a born politician,
if ever there was one, but one who had no political chance, ..."
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