Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without boasting or ostentation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without boasting or ostentation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
boasting orostentation .
Etymologies
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boast + -less
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Examples
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Yields boastless, breathed in sighs to the distress'd!
Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813
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