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Definition of Pomps
1. pomp [n] - See also: pomp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomps
Literary usage of Pomps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... one or more, who will despise the pomps and vanities of this present world,
and will be the servants of justice only in the administration of the State. ..."
2. Hebrew Theism : the Common Basis of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedism by Francis William Newman (1874)
"pomps AND VANITIES. All Christendom affects to renounce Pomp and Vanity : Between
... The pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World " Are pre-eminently ..."
3. Hebrew Theism : the Common Basis of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedism by Francis William Newman (1874)
"pomps AND VANITIES. All Christendom affects to renounce Pomp and Vanity: Between
... The pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World " Are pre-eminently ..."
4. Theism, Doctrinal and Practical; Or, Didactic Religious Utterances by Francis William Newman (1858)
"The pomps and Vanities of this Wicked World " Are pre-eminently denounced ...
Yet what are in truth these pomps and Vanities, If not such things as are the ..."
5. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... indulging in songs of joy, and in all the pomps and exultation of this world.
How the king of England took vp his abode in the Old Temple. ..."
6. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"He is gone from the pinnacle of earthly grandeur to the foot of that throne of
mercy where, stripped of the pomps and vanities of this sinful world, ..."
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