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with os·ten·ta·tion

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of with ostentation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of with ostentation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of with ostentation in a Sentence

  1. William Penn:

    Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

  2. Manu:

    Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.

  3. William Hutton:

    The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky:

    By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  5. John Locke:

    Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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