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1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 726 All their trauaile, paine, and expences, were to their shame loste and employed, and nothing gayned, but a continuall mocke, and dayly derision of the French King.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 319 The strong Statutes Stand like the forfeites in a Barbers shop, As much in mocke, as marke. View more context for this quotation

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 160 Are they called so in vain, and in mock only?

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 41 Made as he was thus in mock of man, he was so blind to his own staring deformities, as to think himself born for pleasing.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge To Nature in Lett., Conversat. & Recoll. (1836) I. 144 And if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 139 Yearned To cast this weary body off, With all its chains of mock and scoff And creeping death.

1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 247 [They] watched the Ganges-brimming jars In fiendish mock borne past their dungeon bars.

1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xix. 222 Capricious ever, it will sometimes, in mock of its own cherished nervous system, exhibit a sturdiness out of pure perversity.