mockage

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mock +‎ -age

Noun[edit]

mockage (countable and uncountable, plural mockages)

  1. (obsolete) Mockery; mocking.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; [], London: [] Iohn Williams [], →OCLC:
      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.

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