Definition of "ostentator" [os•ten•ta•tor]

• One fond of display; a boaster. (noun)

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• "“Omnium qu� dixerat feceratque, arte quadam ostentator” (He had a knack of showing off and advertising whatever he said or did)."
• "But all this while, when I speak of vain – glory, I mean not of that property, that Tacitus doth attribute to Mucianus; Omnium quae dixerat feceratque arte quadam ostentator: for that proceeds not of vanity, but of natural magnanimity and discretion; and in some persons, is not only comely, but gracious."
• "Mutianus, who was the greatest politique of his time, Omnium quae dixerat feceratque arte quadam ostentator, which requireth indeed some art, lest it turn tedious and arrogant; but yet so, as ostentation (though it be to the first degree of vanity) seemeth to me rather a vice in manners than in policy; for as it is said,"