Middle English Dictionary Entry
bōsting ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | bōsting ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of bragging; also, a boast, a brag; also, arrogance; (b) pl. bostinges, bellicose braggadocio, fulminations and threats.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)109/301 : Prede hys a senne of herte..þorȝ dedes of bostynge.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)492 : No lenger wil y spary þe, for al þy grete bostyngge.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)5/9 : When ȝe bosting will bede, sir Edward es boune For to kindel ȝow care.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)2110 : And ellis schal þou not, for al þi bostyng, Ones by hardy to touche us.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)118 : I sey j am of gret kyn..And j-nowe of oothere arayes, whiche ne ben but bostinges.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)14337 : I bere thys horn, Wych that callyd ys 'bostyng'.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.186 : Ther may no gome for goodnesse gette þer-of but lite..But rather..For braggynge and for bostynge.
- a1500 St.Aug.Contemptu Mundi (Hrl 1706)374 : Where ys nowe [her] grete braggynge and al[l]e her bostynge?
b
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)96/3 : Thou foundist a .. meane to gette vnto the people that were feerfull and feble though thi grette manaces and bostingis.