mockage

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English

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Etymology

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From mock +‎ -age.

Noun

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mockage (countable and uncountable, plural mockages)

  1. (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.

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