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.