ostentate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly. rare,transitive
    — 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.
  2. To boast, show off. intransitive,obsolete,rare

词形变化

ostentates present,singular,third-person ostentating participle,present ostentated participle,past ostentated past

词源

Borrowed from Latin ostentātus, perfect passive participle of ostentō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), intensive from ostendō. Doublet of ostent.
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