Meanings of such mummery in English

And to think that good people, millions of them, believe in such mummery!

The old earl with the hard name gives a breakfast, or feast, or some such mummery.

Well, if so, 'tis on the faith of such mummery that priests burn women in merry England.

He had no time for such mummery.

Put such mummery out of your head.

Yet you would not insinuate that these rely on the efficacy of such mummery as that we have just witnessed?

He had 'no faith in any such mummery,' he said, yet he finally yielded to his wife's almost frantic appeals and gave his consent.

The thought of taking personal part in such mummery as a funeral-"barbaricrites," he called them in the forthcoming Work-wasentirely distasteful to him.

A'Dale, however, who disliked such mummeries as much as did Ernst, did not altogether keep his countenance.

Such mummery is insufferable.

"But you hate such mummery yourself, my son?"