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POMPOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pompously mean?
• POMPOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb POMPOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a pompous manner
Familiarity information: POMPOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a pompous manner
Context example:
he pompously described his achievements
Pertainym:
pompous (puffed up with vanity)
Context examples
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence (if innocent we be: as I know you are of this charge which Mr. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Reed; for I read a sincere nature in your ardent eyes and on your clear front), and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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