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Word Meanings - PAGEANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds. Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.

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  • GRANDEUR
    The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
  • SPLENDOR
    1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • OSTENTATION
    1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
  • PUBLICITY
    The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
  • CEREMONY
    1. Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration
  • MAGNIFICENCE
    The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.
  • DISPLAY
    To extend the front of , bringing it into line. Farrow. 3. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke. 4. To make
  • PARADE
    An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
  • PAGEANTRY
    Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds. Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.
  • PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
    A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
  • DISPLAYED
    With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle. (more info) 1. Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
  • SPLENDROUS; SPLENDOROUS
    Splendid. Drayton.

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