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单词 self-boasted
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self-boastedadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈbəʊstᵻd/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈboʊstəd/
Forms: see self- prefix and boasted adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, boasted adj.1
Etymology: < self- prefix + boasted adj.1 Compare self-boasting adj. and earlier self-boasting n.
Of an attribute, quality, etc.: that a person or thing boasts of possessing. Of an identity, archetype, ideal, etc.: that a person or thing boasts of being or embodying.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boasted of
ybosted1377
bragged1599
self-boasted1599
vaunted1635
boasted1667
touted1895
ballyhooed1919
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 23 Thy great selfe-boasted learning.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia Ep. to Rdr. sig. A3v To rumour, and emblason his selfe-boasted perfections.
1737 Boston Gaz. 25 July Notwithstanding our self-boasted Wisdom, we are every Day stumbling at Straws and leaping over Beams.
1825 ‘Mod. Greek’ Mod. Athens ix. 288 There is perhaps no city in which vice is more generally or more obtrusively practised, than in this self-boasted model of taste and purity.
1869 N.Y. Herald 10 Mar. 6/5 That Athens of America [sc. Boston]; that self-boasted centre of all the refinement, culture and morality of the country.
1918 T. Dreiser Free & Other Stories 199 But to Binns the sad part was that Collins had him beaten, and that in the face of his self-boasted superiority.
1975 Register (Orange County, Calif.) 5 Sept. b3/2 I will continue to refer to Ms. Ford as I think consistent with and preferred by a self-boasted ‘liberated woman’.
2010 A. Rothman in W. Boelhower New Orleans in Atlantic World vi. 113 His mother, Rosa Antonio Cassimati, was a local woman and endowed Lafcadio with his self-boasted ‘meridional’ ethnicity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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