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The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.

Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.

Mendacious boasting; falcefood; humbug.

Senseless babble or boasting.

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.

confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic] Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii.

Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

Without boasting or ostentation.

A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification. Cæsar . . . made not here his brag Of "came," and "saw," and "overcame." Shak.

Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Boastingly.

A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

A boasting; a bragging. [Obs.]

Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. Mozley & W.