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mock-heroic

adj

Etymology

From mock + heroic.

  1. borrowed from hērōicus
  2. borrowed from heroïque
  3. compounded as mock-heroic — “mock + heroic”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using…

    Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.

  2. A work in the mockheroic style.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA