Braggadocia

Truthful, and his state Truthfulness, and as to the disguise of truth, if it be on the side of exaggeration, Braggadocia, and him that has it a

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Keep you as close to the wind as you can hug, and I’ll go large; for I’m almost certain we’re in the track of the object of our wishes, the Braggadocia privateer.

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

“Mayhap she is Braggadocia enough to take every devil’s inch of consate out of you, however. —

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829