Pageantry vs Pomp - What's the difference?
pageantry | pomp | Synonyms |
A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
*1609 : William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)
*:That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry , what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
*1849 : Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
*:The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry , with silken streamers flying, ...
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
As nouns the difference between pageantry and pomp
is that pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant while pomp is show of magnificence; parade; display; power.As a verb pomp is
to make a pompous display; to conduct.pageantry
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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