† bravityn.
Obsolete.
= bravery n. (in various senses).
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
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fantastication-
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [noun]
boldshipc1275
couragea1382
audacity1432
fierceness1490
confidence1526
spritec1540
gallantness1555
braverya1586
braveness1589
confidency1600
lion-heart1667
bravity1689
outdaciousness1778
nads1976
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 100 They see wherunto all the French kinges..gret offres and bravites be cum unto.
1574 tr. Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury B vj (margin) Sumtuous feastinge..great coste in brauitie and Lordly pompe.
?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. L3v Quhois brauities, can scarce be tauld.
1689 J. Welwood Let. in Walker Remark. Pass. 23 (Jam.) Brave opportunities for shewing forth the bravity of spirit in suffering.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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