braggartism
(ˈbrægətɪz(ə)m)
Also 6 bragadisme, 6–7 bragardisme, 7 braggadesme, bragarisme.
[f. braggart (but cf. bragger) + -ism.]
The characteristic practice of a braggart; bragging. So also † braggarist = braggart.
| 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iv. 164 What Bragadisme is this? 1601 Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xxix. (1631) 30 Ostentation, and bragarisme. 1618 Barnevelt's Apol. C iij, Now this..vaine-glorious fellow..enters afresh into his bragarisme. c 1626 True Relat. in Arb. Garner I. 609 Which they in their braggadesme enforced so far. 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs 76 The British Snob, for..braggartism in his way, is without a parallel. |