bemock

[ bih-mok ]

verb (used with object)

1. to mock or jeer at (something or someone):

   to bemock a trusting heart.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bemock¹

First recorded in 1600–10; be- + mock

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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Go, thou bemocked, and thrust thyself mid perils none shall thank; For cloaking of the Latin peace o'erthrow the Tuscan rank!

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