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self-ˈboasting, vbl. n. [self- 1 b.] Boasting about oneself. So self-ˈboasted ppl. a., boasted of as one's own.
1599Broughton's Lett. iv. 15 Importunate selfe-boasting. Ibid. vii. 23 Thy great selfe-boasted learning. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xii. 10 This taketh away all ground of self-boasting from them. 1850O. Winslow Inner Life 92 Self-confidence, self-seeking, self-boasting. |