mommery
English
Noun
mommery (countable and uncountable, plural mommeries)
- Archaic form of mummery.
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
- A shew of mommery without a meaning
- 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mommery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)