boastfulness
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I already began to appreciate the hearty enthusiasm with which Americans always speak of their country, designated as it is by us by the names "National vanity," and "Boastfulness."
From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Boastfulness is a pleasure that consists in making an appearance, and setting off yourself with insolence.—The subordinate species of lust they define in this manner.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
Closely allied to the foregoing is the observance of a due mean, in the matter of Boastfulness.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander