Ostentation

Definitions

1. Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
   uncountable, usually
2. A show or spectacle.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Sir Henry had consumed his substance in ostentation and riotous hospitality—had fed many at his board⟳, made many merry in his halls, but not a friend was in his house of mourning; the very retainers who had grown rich upon his ruin, seemed to deem the burial of their master but a signal for carousing and license⟳.”

“Let⟳ her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish⟳ it that she is dead indeed: Maintain⟳ a mourning ostentation;”

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