Mawworm

When the Record attacked the Queen for having a band at Windsor on Sunday, and alluded to Nero fiddling while Rome burned, Punch unblushingly called the editor "a brimstone-faced Mawworm."

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

[1] Mawworm was an eighteenth-century forerunner of Chadband in Bickerstaffe's play The Hypocrite.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

At night he keeps his word by coming down dressed like the proverbial methodist Mawworm.

Happy-Thought Hall 1876

He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.

Middlemarch 1871

He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

Mawworm and Aminidab Sleek then play a role in every household, and every child becomes a wretched little Roscius.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

= Mawworm =, a vulgar copy of Dr. Cantwell “the hypocrite.”

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.

Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

For this feeling and thus speaking this Writer compares me to "Mawworm."

Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

I found him telling Christians that they will always seem 'artificial,' and 'wanting in openness and manliness;' that they will always be 'a mystery 'to the world, and that the world will always think them rogues; and bidding them glory in what the world (i.e. the rest of their countrymen) disown, and say with Mawworm,' I like to be despised. '

Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845