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View synonyms for mock-heroic
mock-heroic
[ mok-hi-roh-ik ]
adjective
- imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action:
mock-heroic dignity.
- 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.
noun
- an imitation or burlesque of something heroic.
mock-heroic
adjective
- (of a literary work, esp a poem) imitating the style of heroic poetry in order to satirize an unheroic subject, as in Pope's The Rape of the Lock
noun
- burlesque imitation of the heroic style or of a single work in this style
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- mock-he·roi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mock-heroic1
First recorded in 1705–15
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Example Sentences
Even Joe smiled once or twice when Boone, in a mock heroic manner alluded to his exploits among the wolves.
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To amuse himself, when professor of rhetoric, he wrote his mock-heroic of the battle of the frogs and mice, "Batrachomyomachia."
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Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.
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Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women.
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The two latter personages have been already damaged by the mock heroic description of them in the introduction.
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