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Pomp is a related term of rite.


As a noun pomp

is pomp.

As an adjective rite is

humid, wet.

pomp

English

Noun

  • 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.
    • "'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."
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • 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.
  • A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • * Addison
    • all the pomps of a Roman triumph

    Related terms

    * pompous * pomposity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

    External links

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    rite

    English

    (wikipedia rite)

    Etymology 1

    Via (etyl) and (etyl), from (etyl) ritus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A religious custom.
    • Related terms
    * ritual

    Etymology 2

    Variation of (right).

    Adjective

    (-)
    • Derived terms
    * amirite

    Adverb

    (-)

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)

    • Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

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