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Word Meanings - BOASTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Boasting. Chaucer.

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  • BOASTFUL
    Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
  • BOASTER
    One who boasts; a braggart.
  • BOAST
    bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
  • BOASTING
    The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
  • BOASTANCE
    Boasting. Chaucer.
  • BOASTIVE
    Presumptuous.
  • BOASTINGLY
    Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
  • BOASTLESS
    Without boasting or ostentation.

 

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