Meaning of ostentate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.
   rare, transitive
2. To boast, show off.
   intransitive, obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.”

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