braggardismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

braggardism (usually uncountable, 複数形 braggardisms)

1. Boastfulness; tendency to brag.
   • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], page 26, column 2:

     Why, Valentine, what Braggardiſme is this?

   • 1892, Émile Zola, chapter 5, in Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, transl., La Débâcle, part 2; republished as The Downfall‎^[1], London: Chatto & Windus, 1893, page 252:

     […] they could be seen venturing slowly and quietly under the projectiles, as far as the spots where the soldiers had fallen. They often crawled along on hands and knees, and endeavoured to take advantage of the various ditches and hedges, of all the protection that the ground afforded, never evincing any braggardism in unnecessarily exposing themselves to peril.

   • 1943 January, Howard Browne, “Warrior of the Dawn”, in Amazing Stories‎^[2]:

     Once, Brutan came back from the arena with his left cheek laid open from an animal’s claw. But the wound had dulled no part of his braggardism and he told a highly colored tale of an encounter against nearly impossible odds.