“ostentative”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

ostentative

释义

† oˈstentative, a. Obs.
[f. L. ostentāt- (see ostentate v.) + -ive.]
a. = ostentatious 1 a;
b. = ostensible.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 73 An ostentatiue sleeght and vaineglorious deuice.1601― Import. Consid. (1831) 18 An outward ostentative shew of advancing the Secular Priests.1638Div. & Pol. Observ. To Rdr. 3 Out of such a vaine glory as ostentative persons affect.1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. ii. §4. 12 The arguments..I do not bestow that ostentative term of demonstration upon them.1685Gracian's Courtier's Orac. 251 There are ostentative Nations, and the Spanish with the first.1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos 34 By the odiousness of one ill deed they loose all the thanks of their Ostentative bounty.
Hence † oˈstentatively adv. = ostentatiously.
1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxxii. (1713) 266 We do not wantonly and ostentatively produce those Keys, but at a dead lift, when no other method will satisfie him.

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