ostentous
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ostentous (comparative more ostentous, superlative most ostentous)
- (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
[edit]“ostentous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.