Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being ostensible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being ostensible.
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- noun The quality of being
ostensible .
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Examples
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He has an opinion of me, and is very willing to let the whole burthen and ostensibility be taken off his shoulders.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815
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