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Webster 1913 Edition
Boastingly
Boast′ing-ly
,adv.
Boastfully; with boasting.
“He boastingly tells you.” Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Boastingly
BOASTINGLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
boastingly
boastingly
English
Adverb
boastingly (comparative more boastingly, superlative most boastingly)
- Boastfully.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.7:
- I doe not thinke that any Spartane Citizen did boastingly glorifie himselfe for his valor, because it was a popular vertue in that Nation […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.7: