Pomp, 1) magnificence, splendour: LLL I, 1, 31. Mids. I, 1, 19. As II, 1, 3. Wint. IV, 4, 499. R2 III, 2, 163. IV, 211. V, 1, 78. H5 IV, 1, 281. H6A I, 1, 142. H6C V, 2, 27. H8 I, 1, 15. H8 I, 1, 15 II, 3, 7. III, 2, 365. Tim. I, 2, 140. IV, 2, 35. IV, 3, 243. Lr. III, 4, 33. Oth. III, 3, 354.
2) a festival procession; a feast: “the pale companion is not for our p.” Mids. I, 1, 15. “go we, as well as haste will suffer us, to this unlooked for unprepared p.” John II, 560. “shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums be measures to our p.?” III, 1, 304. “when adverse foreigners affright my towns with dreadful p. of stout invasion,” IV, 2, 173. “safer triumph is this funeral p.” Tit. I, 176. “what need these feasts, --s and vain-glories?” Tim. I, 2, 249.
3) greatness, power: it (my love) “suffers not in smiling p., nor falls under the blow of thralled discontent,” Sonn. 124, 6 (smiling p. == the favour of greatness). “the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for p. to enter,” All's IV, 5, 54. “to be possessed with double p.” John IV, 2, 9. “vast confusion waits the imminent decay of wrested p.” IV, 3, 154. “to think upon my p. shall be my hell,” H6B II, 4, 41. “much better she ne'er had known p.” H8 II, 3, 13. “let the candied tongue lick absurd p.” Hml. III, 2, 65. “how p. is followed!” Ant. V, 2, 151. cf. also Wint. IV, 4, 499. R2 IV, 211. H6C V, 2, 27.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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