boasting
nounUS /ˈboʊstɪŋ/
1
The making of boasts.
2
An individual boast or bout of boasting.
- Solomon says, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Some, as soon as their vain boastings were uttered, were made monuments of divine justice.1849, Elizabeth Wilson, A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties, page 367:
- After that there were boastings in Hereot! Then did the warriors brag before their stainless queen.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 28: