mock-heroic
Americanadjective
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imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action.
mock-heroic dignity.
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of or relating to a form of satire in which trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated in the ceremonious manner and with the elevated language and elaborate devices characteristic of the heroic style.
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Etymology
Origin of mock-heroic
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.”
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2019
Anyone still donning anything is living in a mock-heroic fantasy.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2019
This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2015
In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope’s satirical mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” was published anonymously in Lintot’s Miscellany.
From Washington Times ● May 11, 2015
She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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