ostentous
English
Adjective
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.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
References
ostentous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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