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Quotation dates: 1513
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(Pompous-,) Pompusly, -lie, adv. [e.m.E. (1596).] In splendour; with pomp or state. — 1513 Doug. xi ii 53.
Eneas … Bad thai suld … attend To leid the pray per ordour pompusly 1513 Ib. xiii iv 17.
Quhilk steyd had careit Turnus oft tofor As victor hame … Full pompusly [Ruddim. -lie]
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