Also 6 bragadisme, 6–7 bragardisme, 7 braggadesme, bragarisme. [f. BRAGGART (but cf. BRAGGER) + -ISM.] The characteristic practice of a braggart; bragging. So also † Braggarist = BRAGGART.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., II. iv. 164. What Bragadisme is this?
1601. Cornwallyes, Ess., II. xxix. (1631), 30. Ostentation, and bragarisme.
1618. Barnevelt’s Apol., C iij. Now this … vaine-glorious fellow … enters afresh into his bragarisme.
c. 1626. True Relat., in Arb., Garner, I. 609. Which they in their braggadesme enforced so far.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, 76. The British Snob, for … braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
