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Definition of Mummeries
1. mummery [n] - See also: mummery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mummeries
Literary usage of Mummeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"To quote Lord Lytton, ' The political designs of his gorgeous and ' august
philosophy, only for awhile successful, left behind ' them but the mummeries of ..."
2. The History of Hampton Court Palace by Ernest Philip Alphonse Law (1890)
"... Great Gate-house—His Banquets to Henry VIII. and Katharine of Arragon, and to
the Ambassadors—Masques, and mummeries, and Balls—He visits Esher Place. ..."
3. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"Epicharmus, retained in the same elegant court, was the first who rejected, on
the stage, the ancient mummeries of the satires, and composed dramas on that ..."
4. Annals of Southern Methodism by Charles Force Deems (1856)
"... to the fabulous legends of the priesthood, but scout them as absurd and
childish, fit only to mingle with the unmeaning mummeries of their worship. ..."
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