Definition of Ostentations

1. Noun. (plural of ostentation) ¹

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Definition of Ostentations

1. ostentation [n] - See also: ostentation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostentations

ostensible
ostensibly
ostension
ostensions
ostensive
ostensive definition
ostensive definitions
ostensively
ostensoria
ostensories
ostensorium
ostensory
ostent
ostentate
ostentation
ostentations (current term)
ostentatious
ostentatiously
ostentatiousness
ostentator
ostentators
ostentious
ostentive
ostentous
ostents
osteo-
osteo-malacia
osteoanagenesis
osteoarthritic
osteoarthritis

Literary usage of Ostentations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"The expence of this ostentations piece of magnificence, did not fall short of fifteen hundred Pounds ; and so incredible must the circumstance appear, ..."

2. Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water-wheels and Machinery: Also of by James Emerson (1892)
"Can such an ostentations display denote a high civilization t "EDUCATE THE IDIOTIC." Can education to such bring happiness ? If ignorance is bliss under any ..."

3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"The professor may not want the ostentations; but he dislikes the sense of inferiority the other man's ostentations give him and his fellow- professors—and ..."

4. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1876)
"English marriages are not accompanied by ostentations processions, illuminations, and street music ; and if ... On the same principle a tax on ostentations ..."

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