Definitions for mummeries

mummeries mum·mer·y

Spelling: [muhm-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈmʌm ə ri/

Mummeries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in mummeries (eeimmmrsu).

Definitions for mummeries

noun

  1. the performance of mummers.
  2. any performance, ceremony, etc., regarded as absurd, false, or ostentatious.

Origin of mummeries

First recorded in 1520-30; mummer + -y3

Examples for mummeries

All mummery was to be forbidden, and all monarchy to be called mummery.

It was all humbug––all this mummery about intuitions and unerring perception and inscrutability.

What an exhibition of mummery it was in that time-begrimed temple!

Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.

For the rest, if this mummery humbles Lord Warwick, gramercy!

They too recognized him now, and realized that here was no mummery.

But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.

That is as good as going to Church to be the central figures of the mummery of priests.

These latter had, each of them, some mummery peculiar to himself.

Even to keep an open mind himself to all the muss and mummery of the Church!

Word Value for mummeries
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16

Words with friends

19

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