ostentator

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Noun

ostentator (plural ostentators)

  1. (archaic) a boaster, ostentatious person
    • 1602, Theorremωn: Or, the Ancient and Most Comfortable Golden-mouth'd Father St. Chrysostome ... Treating on Severall Places of Holy Scripture: Selected and Translated Faithfully ... by J. Willoughbie, page 156:
      [] to bee an ostentatour of mine eloquenice.

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Latin

Etymology

From ostentō +‎ -tor.

Noun

ostentātor m (genitive ostentātōris); third declension

  1. boaster, displayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

ostentātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō

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