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   ostensible

   /ɒˈstɛnsɪbl/

   adjective

   • 1. stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so: "the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint"

   Word Origin mid 18th century: from French, from medieval Latin ostensibilis from Latin ostens- ‘stretched out to view’, from the verb ostendere, from ob- ‘in view of’ + tendere ‘to stretch’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ostensibility noun

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