ostentate
verb/ˈɒstənteɪt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin ostentātus, perfect passive participle of ostentō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), intensive from ostendō. Doublet of ostent.
1
Rare To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.
- It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty:
- Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.1988, R. Porter & D. Porter, chapter XI, in In Sickness & in Health, page 191: