self-ˈboasting, vbl. n.
[self- 1 b.]
Boasting about oneself. So self-ˈboasted ppl. a., boasted of as one's own.
| 1599 Broughton's Lett. iv. 15 Importunate selfe-boasting. Ibid. vii. 23 Thy great selfe-boasted learning. a 1653 Gouge Comm. Heb. xii. 10 This taketh away all ground of self-boasting from them. 1850 O. Winslow Inner Life 92 Self-confidence, self-seeking, self-boasting. |