pompously, adv.
(ˈpɒmpəslɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a pompous manner; with magnificence or splendour; in pomp or state.
| 1513 Douglas æneis xi. ii. 53 And bad thai suld tak gud kepe and attend, To leid the pray per ordour pompusly. 1596 Lodge Marg. Amer. 125 Their horses, were all pompously garnished with golde and siluer. 1737 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. (ed. 33) 275 The Benefactor's Body having been pompously buried before in Barbados, was yet..brought over. |
2. With display or parade; with affected dignity; ostentatiously, vauntingly.
| 1718 Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell iii. li. 318 Preferring Truth and Righteousness to all other Considerations how Pompiously soever set off. 1847 C. Brontë J. Eyre viii, This charge which Mr. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand. |