Glory vs Pomp - What's the difference?
glory | pomp | Related terms |
Great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.
* , chapter=5
, title= *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* , chapter=4
, title= Worship or praise.
* Bible, (w) ii. 14
Optical phenomenon caused by water droplets.
Victory; success.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd
, work=BBC Sport An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
(label) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
* 1891 :
To boast; to be proud.
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.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
* Addison
Glory is a related term of pomp.
As nouns the difference between glory and pomp
is that glory is great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful while pomp is pomp.As a verb glory
is to exult with joy; to rejoice.glory
English
(wikipedia glory)Noun
(glories)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- Spread his glory through all countries wide.
- Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.
- Jewels lose their glory if neglected.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- Glory to God in the highest.
citation, passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory , they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
- in glory of thy fortunes
Verb
(en-verb)- He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
pomp
English
Noun
- "'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