ostentate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ostentātus, past participle of ostentō, intensive from ostendō. See ostent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ostentate (third-person singular simple present ostentates, present participle ostentating, simple past and past participle ostentated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.
- Synonym: (obsolete) ostent
- 1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty:
- It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.
References
[edit]- “ostentate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]ostentate
- inflection of ostentare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]ostentate f pl
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]ostentāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]ostentate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ostentar combined with te
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