ostent
noun
os·tent
äˌstent
plural -s
1
: a significant sign : portent
the night waxed wan, as though with an awed sense of such ostent
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy2
: the act of showing or displaying : appearance, manifestation
be merry and employ your chiefest thoughts to courtship and such fair ostents of love Shakespeare
Shakespeare3
: excessive display : ostentation sense 1 a
the city of glorious ostent and vanity Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
Word History
Etymology
in sense 1, from Latin ostentum, from neuter of ostentus, past participle of ostendere to show; in other senses, from Latin ostentus, noun, from ostentus, past participle of ostendere to show