bemock

American

[bih-mok] / bɪˈmɒk /

verb (used with object)

to mock or jeer at (something or someone).

to bemock a trusting heart.

Etymology

Origin of bemock

First recorded in 1600–10; be- + mock

Example Sentences

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Hills, torrents, woods, embodied to bemock The Tyrant, and confound his cruelty.

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Very bitter sounds thy language, Bitterer than the stars' decrees are, Which bemock my heart's desire.

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What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?”

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This music once unlocked My heart, she took the gold she prized: Her novel gleams no richer: dreams Like mine are best unanalysed: And she forgets her poor bemocked Prince Karol, now, it seems.

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Shall I bemocked my early lovers try, And go Numidian wedlock now on bended knee to buy: I, who so often scorned to take their bridal-bearing hands?

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