ostentous

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English

Adjective

ostentous (comparative more ostentous, superlative most ostentous)

  1. (obsolete) ostentatious
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      He gives us occaſion to shew the world our Parts, and Piety , which elſe perhaps in our dark Graves would ſleep and moulder with us quire unknown ; or , could not otherwiſe well be ſeen without the vanity of a light and an oſtentous mind.

References

ostentous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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