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单词 the pomps and vanities of this wicked world
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the pomps and vanities of this wicked world
(a) In or with allusion to the various forms of the baptismal formula used in the catechism, as the devil and all his pomps, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, etc.Originally the processions, public shows, spectacles of the circus, etc., associated with or sanctioned by pagan worship (see sense 2); subsequently, more vaguely, any ‘shows’ held to be under the patronage of the Devil; similarly transferred tacitly to those of ‘the world’, and associated with its ‘vanities’.
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a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 4665 (MED) At þe fonte, seyþ þe lewed man, ‘Y forsake þe here, Satan, And alle þy pompes [Fr. pompes del deable] and all thy werkys.’
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 380 (MED) In resceyuynge of..baptisme he promitteþ to forsake & renounce þe deuel & þe world & delicis & alle hise pompis.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 26 (MED) Hast nat þou mynde of the othe..whanne thou receyuedist the holy bapteme, where thou forsokest all pompes and decepcions of the enemy?
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. LLLiiiv Whether thou renounce & forsake the deuyl and all his pompes.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Cathechisme f. ixv That I should forsake the deuil and all his workes and pompes, the vanities of the wicked worlde. [1603 the deuill and all his workes, the pomps and vanities of the wicked world.]
a1645 R. Baker Theatrum Rediviuum (1662) 13 Plays are the Pomps of the Devil; not our Plays.
1746 Earl of Kilmarnock in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 89 The pomps and gaudy shows of the world.
1776 H. More Let. (1925) 33 Would you believe it? In the midst of all the pomps and vanities of this wicked town, I have taken it into my head to study like a dragon.
1845 G. A. Poole Churches vii. 73 His armorial bearings (the very essential hieroglyphic of the pomps of this world which we renounce at Baptism).
1858 E. M. Sewell Amy Herbert x. 128 The pomps and vanities of the world are different to different people. If Susan Reynolds..were anxious to..wear a silk dress like yours, she would be longing for pomps and vanities, because she would be coveting something beyond her station.
1902 tr. M. A. Ratisbonne in W. James Varieties Relig. Experience x. 224 You shall renounce your world and its pomps and pleasures;..you shall have no other aspiration than to follow Christ.
1960 P. Parker Allegory of Faerie Queene ii. 48 Beauty was no longer regarded as an attribute of the Most High and the Most Fair, but had become one of the pomps and vanities of this world.
2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 July 15 Dr Wilson's challenge has given the SNP an opportunity to renew its baptismal vows by renouncing the devolution devil and all its pomps and vanities.
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