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Definition of Braggest
1. brag [adj] - See also: brag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braggest
Literary usage of Braggest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1915)
"... yet continually braggest thou. It beseemeth thee not to be a braggart, for
there are here better men. And the mares leading are they that led before, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"And who art thou that braggest of thy life of Idleness; complacently showest thy
bright gilt equipages ; sumptuous cushions; appliances for folding of the ..."
3. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"But, for because thou braggest so of thy birth, He see how it shall profit thee
anon. 500 Fabi. Alphonsus, cease from these thy threatning words, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1843)
"... braggest of thy life of Idleness ; complacently showest thy bright gilt
equipages; sumptuous cushions; appliances for folding of the hands to mere sleep ..."
5. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"The Highest God, as I understand And who art thou that braggest of thy it, does
audibly so command thee; still life of Idleness; complacently showest thy ..."
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