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Definition of Outboasting
1. outboast [v] - See also: outboast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outboasting
Literary usage of Outboasting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies by Eric Sutherland Robertson (1883)
"There ensues a long colloquy between the pair; Gabriel yearning over his abandoned
friend, and Lucifer, on the other hand, outboasting himself in defiance ..."
2. Mohammed and the Rise of Islam by David Samuel Margoliouth (1905)
"... and they hoped to compensate for their inadequate equipment for actual warfare
by outboasting the Prophet; and indeed they are said to have summoned the ..."
3. Mohammed and the Rise of Islam by David Samuel Margoliouth (1905)
"... those of the mouth was ill understood by the Arabs, and they hoped to compensate
for their inadequate equipment for actual warfare by outboasting the ..."
4. The China Shop by Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1921)
"Then, ashamed in the old, familiar Larry-fashion, began absurdly outboasting his
own boast, to make me believe its reality to have been meant for sheer, ..."
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