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Definition of Pomposities
1. pomposity [n] - See also: pomposity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomposities
Literary usage of Pomposities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"pomposities of the Town House. Ems, July 14. I HAVE just made a discovery, that
this place is as full of idlers and water-drinkers as their Highnesses of ..."
2. The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography by Edwin John Ellis (1907)
"Yet it requires intellect and taste superior to that of nine people out of ten
to be even a tame dabbler in little pomposities. Blake in cool moments did as ..."
3. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"Middle age is the conventional garden where the little pomposities are ...
Youth is the time for weeding out the little pomposities so that they will not ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"... modelling his blank verse on Milton's, he achieves inversions, pauses and
pomposities which are wholly unlike the smooth and simple rapidity of Homer. ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1903)
"... the birth-days, levees, processions to parliament, inauguration pomposities,
etc. But the copy published says, "as they have already submitted us to the ..."
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