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Ostensive – definitions in English dictionary

adjective

Directly demonstrative.

Usage examples:

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adjective

Showing what a word or thing is or means by giving an example of it

Usage examples:

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明示的

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Ostensief

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Ostensif

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Auffällig

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दिखावटी

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Ostensivo

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외설적인

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Показательный

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Ostensible

Word origin

mid 16th century: from late Latin ostensivus, from ostens- ‘stretched out to view’ (see ostensible).

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Ostensive – similar words

ostension

noun

The action of showing, exhibiting, or making manifest; exhibition, display, manifestation; an instance of this.

noun

= ostensive definition .

noun

The showing of the consecrated elements to the congregation at the eucharist; (also) a similar display of some other object of veneration.

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ostensibly

adverb

As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; apparently.

Usage examples:

The party secretary resigned, ostensibly from ill health
adverb

In a way that appears or claims to be one thing when it is really something else

Usage examples:

He has spent the past three months in florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact…
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ostensible

adjective

Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

Usage examples:

The real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint
adjective

Appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else

Usage examples:

Rous published 60 scientific papers after his ostensible retirement., if the engine on an ostensibl…
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