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What is a mummery?

What is a mummery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. merrymaking; the performance of a mummer
  2. a ridiculous or ostentatious ceremony, especially of a religious nature
  3. a showy but empty performance
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They needed little to release the accumulated pressure of static nerve force which the terrorizing mummery of the witch-doctor had induced.
Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.
Marion Cotillard's wide-eyed, furious performance as a Polish woman newly arrived in America propels the story beyond the usual melting-pot clichés, even as the setting evokes the mummery of vaudeville and Yiddish theater.
Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all.
The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal.
That is as good as going to Church to be the central figures of the mummery of priests.

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