ostentateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɒstənteɪt/

動詞

ostentate (third-person singular simple present ostentates, present participle ostentating, simple past and past participle ostentated)

1. (transitive, rare) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly. [from c. 1540]

   Synonym: (obsolete) ostent

   • 1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty:

     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.

   • 1988, R. Porter & D. Porter, chapter XI, in In Sickness & in Health, page 191:

     Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.

2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To boast, show off. [1670-1822]

参照

• “ostentate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.