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God bless the mark

God bless the mark is the alternative form of God save the mark.

Meaning of God save the mark

Interjection

  1. (archaic) Ironic expression of distaste for someone.
    • […] for he made me mad
      To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
      And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
      Of guns and drums and wounds,—God save the mark!—
      And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earthc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about God bless the mark

What is God bless the mark the alternative form of?
God bless the mark is the alternative form of God save the mark.

Words near God bless the mark in the dictionary

  1. God bless
  2. God bless America
  3. God bless someone's cotton socks
  4. God bless the Duke of Argyle
  5. God bless the Duke of Argyll
  6. God bless the mark
  7. God bless you
  8. God botherer
  9. God botherers
  10. God boy
  11. God boys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: God bless the mark (page history and authors); God save the mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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