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adjectiveostentous (comparative more ostentous, superlative most ostentous)
comparative more ostentous · superlative most ostentous
- obsoleteostentatious
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
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