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bemocking

bemocking is the present participle and gerund of bemock.

Meaning of bemock

Verb

bemock (third-person singular simple present bemocks, present participle bemocking, simple past and past participle bemocked)

  1. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
  2. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
  3. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
    • thought could not divide
      The actual world from these entangling evils,
      Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried
      All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied.1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...

Questions about bemocking

What is bemocking the present participle and gerund of?
Bemocking is the present participle and gerund of bemock.

Words near bemocking in the dictionary

  1. bemoanings
  2. bemoans
  3. bemoccasined
  4. bemock
  5. bemocked
  6. bemocking
  7. bemocks
  8. bemoil
  9. bemoiled
  10. bemoiling
  11. bemoils

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