Usually means: Imitation of classical heroic style.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word mock-heroic:

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  1. mock-heroic: Merriam-Webster
  2. mock-heroic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mock-heroic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mock-heroic, mock-heroic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mock-heroic: Vocabulary.com
  6. mock-heroic: Wordnik
  7. mock-heroic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. mock-heroic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. mock-heroic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. mock-heroic: Dictionary.com
  11. Mock-heroic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. mock-heroic: Rhymezone
  13. mock-heroic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. mock-heroic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. mock-heroic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. mock-heroic: Wiktionary

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  1. mock-heroic: Encyclopedia

(Note: See mock-heroically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mock-heroic)

adjective:  (literature) Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
noun:  (literature) A work in the mockheroic style.

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