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mummery

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mum·mer·y  (mm-r)
n. pl. mum·mer·ies
1. A performance by mummers.
2. A pretentious or hypocritical show or ceremony.
[French mommerie, from Old French momer, to wear a mask, pantomime.]
mummery [ˈmʌmərɪ]
n pl -meries
1. (Performing Arts / Theatre) a performance by mummers
2. hypocritical or ostentatious ceremony
mummery
1. a performance by mummers, performers wearing masks or fantastic disguises.
2. any showy but empty performance.
See also: Performing
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mummery - meaningless ceremonies and flattery
flummery
hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning
Translations
mummery
n (old) → Pantomimenspiel nt; (fig) → Mummenschanz m


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--Like a new strange mummery in which mine evil spirit, the melancholy devil, delighteth:--I love Zarathustra, so doth it often seem to me, for the sake of mine evil spirit.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men - but not his boy: I looked for him - had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Astonished at what he saw, the Councillor asked what was the meaning of all this mummery, and who that man was.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
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