Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ostentatious display.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of setting forth
ostentatiously ; aboastful display .
Etymologies
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Latin venditatio, from venditare, venditatum, to offer again and again for sale, v. freq. of vendere. See vend.
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Examples
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-- And some, by a cunning protestation against all reading, and false venditation of their own naturals, think to divert the sagacity of their readers from themselves, and cool the scent of their own fox-like thefts; when yet they are so rank, as a man may find whole pages together usurped from one author; their necessities compelling them to read for present use, which could not be in many books; and so come forth more ridiculously and palpably guilty than those who, because they cannot trace, they yet would slander their industry.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605
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