Word Meanings - BOASTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Boasting. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to BOASTANCE)

• 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.