All 3 Uses
pompous
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- —There is something very pompous in his style.†
p. 62.9 *
- In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.†
p. 70.9
- My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.†
p. 133.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(pompous) self-important or arrogant in speech or behavior -- especially in a way that seems exaggerated or overly formal
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)