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ˌmock-heˈroic, a. and n.
[f. mock a.]
A. adj. Imitating in a derisive or burlesque manner the heroic character or style; burlesquing heroic action.
1711–12Addison Spect. No. 273 ⁋8 We find in Mock-Heroic Poems, particularly in the Dispensary, and the Lutrin, several Allegorical Persons. 1765Colman tr. Terence, Eunuch i. iii. 123 note, The poet in a kind of mock heroick manner invokes the muse to teach him to draw the character of his heroine. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 296/1 Tassoni's mock-heroic poem, ‘La Secchia Rapita’. 1847Tennyson Princess Concl. 11 The men required that I should give throughout The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque. 1876Black Madcap V. v, ‘I am not to go down to the foot of the lane?’ said she, with mock-heroic sadness. 1889Swinburne Stud. B. Jonson 73 The passage is a really superb example of tragicomic or mock-heroic blank verse.
absol.1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (ed. 4) I. iv. 255 Cervantes; who is the father and unrivalled model of the true mock-heroic.
B. n. A burlesque imitation of the heroic style or manner.
1728Gulliver Decypher'd 7 Peter abused the Wittlings of the Town for not having Sense enough to taste his Mock-Heroicks. 1847Tennyson Princess Concl. 64 In mock heroics stranger than our own. 1864W. Smith T. B. Shaw's Hist. Eng. Lit. xv. (1865) 294 The famous mock-heroic of Boileau. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 83 He [Cæsar] had no sentimental passion about him; no Byronic mock heroics.
So mock-heˈroical a. = mock-heroic a. Also mock-heˈroically adv., in a mock-heroic manner.
1850L. Hunt Autobiog. xxiii. (1860) 370 An article which I wrote, with the mock-heroical title of The Graces and Anxieties of Pig Driving. 1905Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 4/7 The ‘Argonaut’ mock-heroically challenges anyone to point to a single case of a college man having bitten off another player's nose or ear. |