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Boastingly vs Ostentate - What's the difference?

boastingly | ostentate |

As an adverb boastingly

is boastfully.

As a verb ostentate is

(obsolete) to make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.

boastingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Boastfully.
  • *, II.7:
    • I doe not thinke that any Spartane Citizen did boastingly glorifie himselfe for his valor, because it was a popular vertue in that Nation.

    ostentate

    English

    Verb

    (ostentat)
  • (obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
    (Webster 1913) ----