depreciatively. Ridiculous or elaborate ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual); play-acting, pretence, meaningless show. Cf. mummery, n.…
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| 释义 | society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun] (3) mumming1528 depreciatively. Ridiculous or elaborate ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual); play-acting, pretence, meaningless show. Cf. mummery, n.… trumpery1542 ‘Something of less value than it seems’; hence, ‘something of no value; trifles’ (Johnson)… Applied contemptuously to religious practices… mummery1549 depreciatively. Ridiculous ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual regarded as pretentious or hypocritical); an instance of this. Also… |
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