Both Uses of
pomp
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- Don't you think that takes some of the pomp and circumstance out of religion?†
*
- But Flynn wasn't a born New Englander; he was a transplanted southern boy, and he apparently preferred informality to pomp and circumstance.†
Definition:
ceremonial elegance and splendor
or:
(archaic) a pretentious or vain display
or:
(archaic) a pretentious or vain display