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noun

Pomp n.

A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. "All the pomps of a Roman triumph."

Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

Synonyms: Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state; magnificence; ostentation; grandeur; pride.

verb

Pomp v. i. To make a pompons display; to conduct. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Pomp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was right, for many were the flies that had been snared and sucked in the web of Cromwell, who, in his full tide of power and pomp, forgot the fate of his master, Wolsey, in his day a ...

— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard

... promising Children, in a tender, but very powerful Manner; their little Arms twine about our Hearts; and there is something more penetrating in their first broken Accents of Indearment, than in all the Pomp and Ornament of Words. Every Infant-Year increases the Pleasure, and nourishes the Hope. And where is the Parent so wise and so cautious, and so constantly intent on his Journey to Heaven, as not to measure back a ...

— Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children • Phillip Doddridge

... and Mahomet is his prophet!" How admirably calculated such a war-cry would be for the circumstances of the seventh century. The simple sublimity of Oneness, as opposed to school-theology and catholic demons: the glitter of barbaric pomp, instead of tame observances: the flashing scimetar of ambition to supersede the cross: a turban aigretted with jewels for the twisted wreath of thorns. As human nature is, and especially in that time was, ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... of the higher order. They take charge of the youth, and educate him to the mysteries of their craft. For months or years he is condemned to entire seclusion, receiving no visits but from the brethren of his order. At length he is initiated with ceremonies of more or less pomp into the brotherhood, and from that time assumes that gravity of demeanor, sententious style of expression, and general air of mystery and importance, everywhere deemed so eminently becoming in a doctor and a priest. A peculiarity of the Moxos ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... in her novel of Villette, has described Rachel with a splendor of rhetoric that is very unusual with the author of Jane Eyre. But in the style of the description it is very easy to see the influence of the thing described. It has a picturesque stateliness, a grave grace and musical pomp, which all belong to the genius of Rachel. Even the soft gloom of her eyes is in it; a gloom and a fire which no one could more subtly feel than Miss Bronte. Her description is the best that we have seen of what is, in its nature, ...

— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

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