Splendour vs Ostentation - What's the difference?
splendour | ostentation | Related terms |
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
* 1599 ,
Splendour is a related term of ostentation.
As nouns the difference between splendour and ostentation
is that splendour is while ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.splendour
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Noun
(-)Usage notes
The standard spelling in modern British English is splendour', with ' splendor being the American and dated British spelling.ostentation
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Noun
(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;