Brilliancy vs Pomp - What's the difference?
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a shining quality; brilliance.
An act of being brilliant.
(label) A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
* 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
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A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
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Brilliancy is a related term of pomp.
As nouns the difference between brilliancy and pomp
is that brilliancy is a shining quality; brilliance while pomp is pomp.brilliancy
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pomp
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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."
- 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.
- all the pomps of a Roman triumph