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Pomposity Aldiborontephoscophornio nickname from play by Carey, given by Scott to his pompous publisher, James Ballantyne. [Br. Lit.: Barnhart, 23] bombastic, pompous king of Queerumania. [Br. Drama: Benét, 197] pompous, conceited steward who aspires to his mistress’s love. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Twelfth Night] |
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| said the husband, with the absurd pomposity of his tribe. But though he had a fine flux of words, and delivered his little voice with great pomposity and pleasure to himself, and never advanced any sentiment or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ought to have insured any man a success. Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative. |
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