Meaning of Cope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.
   slang
3. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
   derogatory
4. A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
5. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
   derogatory
6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Colorado, United States.
7. The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
   derogatory, literary
8. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
9. A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
   derogatory
10. A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.
11. The top part of a sand casting mold.
    derogatory
12. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
    derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.”

“My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.”

“Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot, which in their mind is a cope.”

“When those of us with W-2 income say the ultrawealthy are all miserable anyway, that’s cope. When some late-1950s Americans nitpicked the reporting on Sputnik because they couldn’t believe the Soviet Union launched a satellite first — that, according to the writer Jeet Heer, was “a pathetic display of cope.””

“[…] there went firſt 160 Prieſts, all in their Copes, eight Biſhops next, […]”

“He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.”

“the starry cope of heaven”

“Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,[…]farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.”

“One summer night, in commune with the hope Thus deeply fed, amid those ruins gray I watched, beneath the dark sky’s starry cope; […]”

“It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.”

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