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Definition of Pompousness
1. Noun. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
Generic synonyms: Inelegance
Derivative terms: Ostentatious, Ostentatious, Pompous, Pompous, Pretentious, Pretentious, Ostentatious
Definition of Pompousness
1. Noun. The quality of being pompous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pompousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pompousness
Literary usage of Pompousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"His vanity and pompousness. — Sketches of his character by his contemporaries.
— Amusing anecdote of his ignorance. — His fear of sleeping in a room alone. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William and Mary by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"... and Created a Knight of the Garter—Raised to the Secretaryship of State in
1724 — His Vanity and pompousness — Sketches of His Character by His ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Boast ful ne ss, boasting, pretension, ostentation, pompousness, parade. ...
pompousness, я. I. Grandeur, magnificence, pageantry, splendor, state, pomp, ..."
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