All 13 Uses of
mock
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Stephen noted the mockery in the question and said: —Of prose do you mean?†
Chpt 2
- As he watched this swaying form and tried to read for himself the legend of the priest's mocking smile there came into Stephen's memory a saying which he had heard from his father before he had been sent to Clongowes, that you could always tell a jesuit by the style of his clothes.†
Chpt 2
- The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.†
Chpt 2
- The poor sinner holds out his arms to those who were dear to him in this earthly world, to those whose simple piety perhaps he made a mock of, to those who counselled him and tried to lead him on the right path, to a kind brother, to a loving sister, to the mother and father who loved him so dearly.†
Chpt 3
- He was seized and bound like a common criminal, mocked at as a fool, set aside to give place to a public robber, scourged with five thousand lashes, crowned with a crown of thorns, hustled through the streets by the jewish rabble and the Roman soldiery, stripped of his garments and hanged upon a gibbet and His side was pierced with a lance and from the wounded body of our Lord water and blood issued continually.†
Chpt 3
- They mock and jeer at the lost souls whom they dragged down to ruin.†
Chpt 3
- —Such is the threefold sting of conscience, the viper which gnaws the very heart's core of the wretches in hell, so that filled with hellish fury they curse themselves for their folly and curse the evil companions who have brought them to such ruin and curse the devils who tempted them in life and now mock them in eternity and even revile and curse the Supreme Being Whose goodness and patience they scorned and slighted but Whose justice and power they cannot evade.†
Chpt 3
- Will we too, like the cruel jews and the brutal soldiers, mock that gentle and compassionate Saviour Who trod alone for our sake the awful wine-press of sorrow?†
Chpt 3
- No, no. It is impossible for any human being to do that which offends so deeply the divine majesty, that which is punished by an eternity of agony, that which crucifies again the Son of God and makes a mockery of Him.†
Chpt 3
- His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow under the windows of that age, to hear the grave and mocking music of the lutenists or the frank laughter of waist-coateers until a laugh too low, a phrase, tarnished by time, of chambering and false honour stung his monkish pride and drove him on from his lurking-place.†
Chpt 5
- Can you say with certitude by whom the soul of your race was bartered and its elect betrayed—by the questioner or by the mocker?†
Chpt 5
- And yet he felt that, however he might revile and mock her image, his anger was also a form of homage.†
Chpt 5
- The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellow students.
Chpt 5 *mocking = ridiculing (making fun of)