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   Ostentation , n. [L. ostentatio: cf. F. ostentation.]
   The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. “Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm.”  
   Milton.
   
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   He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation.
   Atterbury.
   
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   A show or spectacle. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Syn. -- Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See Parade.
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