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Noun

panoply (plural panoplies)

  • A splendid display of something. [from 1829]
    • ✤ Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence.1
    • ✤ To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin’s cavalry.2
    • ✤ And you were waking/And day was breaking/A panoply of song/And summer comes to Springville Hill3
  • (by extension, historical) A collection or display of weaponry.
  • Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
  • (historical) A complete set of armour. [from 1570s]
  • (by extension) Something that covers and protects.
    • ✤ [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way; all which, however, he, the man he was, could receive on thick enough panoply, or even rebound therefrom, and also go his way.4
  • (by extension) A broad or full range or complete set.
    • ✤ Near-synonyms: plenitude, plentitude, plenty, cornucopia
    • ✤ Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War.5

Verb

panoply (third-person singular simple present panoplies, present participle panoplying, simple past and past participle panoplied)

  • To fit out in a suit of armour
  • To array or bedeck

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpænəpli/
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Footnotes

  1. 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 459: ↩

  2. 2005, Christopher Paolini, “The Burning Plains”, in Eldest, page 581: ↩

  3. 2011, The Decemberists, “June Hymn”, in The King Is Dead: ↩

  4. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC,: ↩

  5. 2016 November, Eugene Rogan, “The First World War and its Legacy in the Middle East”, in Amal Ghazal, Jens Hanssen, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, →DOI: ↩

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