mockage

English

Etymology

From mock +‎ -age.

Noun

mockage (countable and uncountable, plural mockages)

1. (obsolete) Mockery; mocking.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     a mockage of marriage

   • 1662, The Works of the Great Albionean Divine ... Mr Hugh Broughton, page 409:

     I [...] say the Apocrypha be all lying works or Ironies: mockages of fools.

Further reading

• “mockage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.