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- verb Present participle of
pontify .
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Examples
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He had seen him walking in the Vatican gardens, enthroned in the Hall of Beatifications, and pontifying at St. Peter's, and now he beheld him on that arm-chair, in privacy, and looking so slight and fragile that he could not restrain a feeling of affectionate anxiety.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871
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He had seen him walking in the Vatican gardens, enthroned in the Hall of Beatifications, and pontifying at St. Peter's, and now he beheld him on that arm-chair, in privacy, and looking so slight and fragile that he could not restrain a feeling of affectionate anxiety.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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He had seen him walking in the Vatican gardens, enthroned in the Hall of Beatifications, and pontifying at St. Peter's, and now he beheld him on that arm-chair, in privacy, and looking so slight and fragile that he could not restrain a feeling of affectionate anxiety.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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So anyone who slips an answer to that question as a mere section in a school textbook is simply pontifying on what will probably be some simplistic positivist dreck about
Planet Atheism 2008
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