pomp

prameilu

komeus Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
1698. "A person of quality" Pierre Nicole. Moral Essayes, Containd 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."

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

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