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Word Meanings - BOASTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without boasting or ostentation.

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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.
  • OSTENTATION
    1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
  • BOASTER
    One who boasts; a braggart.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • 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.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • BOASTANCE
    Boasting. Chaucer.
  • BOASTIVE
    Presumptuous.
  • BOASTINGLY
    Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
  • WITHOUT
    1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
  • BOASTLESS
    Without boasting or ostentation.

 

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