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# mummery

«mummery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a silly, pointless ritual or show, with too much pretence…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural mummeries)

### meaning for a pupil

Mummery is a silly, pointless ritual or show, with too much pretence and fuss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mummery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a council or king holds a strange ceremony, and a character asks what it all means

### examples

- "What is all this mummery?" asked the Councillor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mummery/#x1)
- The old ritual was just mummery to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mummery/#x2)
- Stop the mummery and tell me the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mummery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it names a ceremony, not an amount.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mummery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mummery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.