pomp

plural pomps

1. countableuncountableShow of magnificence; parade; display; power.

   In its pomp Victoria had 17 platforms, but many of the through platforms were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the Manchester Arena.

   2019 November 6, “1901 tramcar joins Manchester Victoria celebrations”, in Rail, page 25

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   'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour.

   1698, Pierre Nicole, “A person of quality”, in Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties., volume I, page 95

   The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountableA procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

   […] a more beautiful expression of joy and thanksgiving than could have been exhibited by all the pomps of a Roman triumph.

   1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian

present singular third person pomps · participle present pomping · participle past pomped · past pomped

1. obsoleteTo make a pompous display.

   pomp'd for those hard trifles

   a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC

present singular third person pomps · participle present pomping · participle past pomped · past pomped

1. obsoletetransitiveTo pamper.