boasting

English

Verb

boasting

1. present participle of boast

Noun

boasting (plural boastings)

1. 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

the making of boasts

• Latin: iactantia f
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Anagrams

• boatings, bostangi