Grandeur vs Ostentation - What's the difference?
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The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
Nobility.
(archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
* 1599 ,
As nouns the difference between grandeur and ostentation
is that grandeur is the state of being grand or splendid; magnificence while ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.grandeur
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* ----ostentation
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(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;