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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mock·er·y n.; pl. Mockeries
 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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