1. Appearance; air; manner; mien. [Little used.]
2. Show; manifestation; token. [Little used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [Not used.]
To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
1. Outward show or appearance.
2. Ambitious display; vain show; display of any thing dictated by vanity, or intended to invite praise or flattery. ostentation of endowments is made by boasting or self-commendation. ostentation often appears in works of art and sometimes in acts of charity.
3. He knew that good and bountiful minds are sometimes inclined to ostentation
4. The painter is to make no ostentation of the means by which he strikes the imagination.
5. A show or spectacle. [Not used.]
1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
2. A show or spectacle.
1. Making a display from vanity; boastful; fond of presenting one's endowments or works to others in an advantageous light.
2. Your modesty is so far from being ostentatious of the good you do -
With vain display; boastfully.
Vain display; vanity; boastfulness.
One who makes a vain show; a boaster. [Little used.]
One fond of display; a boaster.
Fond of making a show. [Little used.]
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