Obs. [f. L. fastuōs-us (see FASTUOUS) + -ITY.] The quality of being fastuous; haughtiness, ostentation, pomposity.
1656–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 45. 53. That new Modle of Ethicks, which hath been obtruded upon the World with so much Fastuosity, and is indeed nothing but the old Democritick Doctrine revived, is no Ethicks at all, but a mere Cheat.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 25. The excessive pride and fastuosity of the Idolatrous Hierarchy. Ibid. (1685), Illustr. Dan. xi. 45. Either a solid Greatness … or a tumid Fastuosity and affected Greatness.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
