exhibition

CEFRB1

/ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/

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A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.
An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.

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Well I made some exhibition, I lost my will to eat / The only thing that matters to me is to touch your lotus feet
2002, George Harrison, “Stuck Inside a Cloud”, in Brainwashed
"I could not have believed," remarked Francesca, "had I not witnessed it since my residence in your country, how the reality and the affectation of feeling can exist together. Before I left our solitary home, the very exhibition of emotion would have tempted me to doubt its truth. Now, I observe that some affect, as others shun, display; yet the feeling is equally true in both."
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 178
He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 352
Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.
2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review

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From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + -ion.