Pome vs Pomp - What's the difference?
pome | pomp |
A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
(obsolete) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
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 pome and pomp
is that pome is a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels while pomp is pomp.As a verb pome
is (obsolete|intransitive) to grow to a head, or form a head in growing.pome
English
(wikipedia pome)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (fruit that develops from the base of a flower) apple, pear, quinceDerived terms
* pomaceous * pomiferousVerb
(pom)Anagrams
* * ----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