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pompousness|ˈpɒmpəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being pompous: see the adj.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 243 Quoth Agas I sey yt for no pompousnesse A jentyl wumman I am as bern wytnesse [etc.]. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clx. 992 If wee haue wherewith to maintaine ourselues well, we fall to gluttonie, pompousnesse, whoredom, and other loosenesse. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv. Rule ii. ⁋14 They [Christ's miracles] had nothing of pompousness and ostentation. 1793Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 283 The pompousness of this Embassy could not but excite the attention of England. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 76 In verse, he had a pomp, which, excellent in itself, became pompousness in his imitators. |