boasting
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈboʊstɪŋ/
Verb[edit]
boasting
- present participle and gerund of boast
Noun[edit]
boasting (plural boastings)
- The making of boasts.
- 1849, Elizabeth Wilson, A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties, page 367:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
the making of boasts