Definition of Boastings

1. Noun. (plural of boasting) ¹

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Definition of Boastings

1. boasting [n] - See also: boasting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boastings

boas
boast
boastance
boasted
boaster
boasters
boastest
boasteth
boastful
boastfull
boastfully
boastfulness
boastfulnesses
boasting
boastingly
boastings
boastive
boastless
boasts
boat
boat-billed heron
boat-race
boat-shaped
boat-shaped abdomen
boat-tail
boat bug
boat bugs
boat club
boat conformation
boat deck

Literary usage of Boastings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman by Robert H. Kellogg (1865)
"Whether they thought of this amid their boastings or not, we can not say; but History may suggest the thought to them in coming tune, if they live to see it ..."

2. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... from one guard to another, and all the military boastings about the strength of the place, would have made the ascent a tiresome bore. ..."

3. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"... were as clever, were as diligent as Mrs. Brown's Toby, is a cry from the mother's heart, not so loud, but quite as deep, as her boastings. ..."

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