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1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 684. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp.

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1747.  Collins, Ode Simplicity, ii. O chaste, unboastful Nymph, to thee I call!

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1868.  Milman, St. Paul’s, xix. 494. Unlike most great men, the more he is revealed to posterity, [Wellington] shows more substantial, unboastful, unquestionable greatness.

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1890.  Ld. Coleridge, in J. E. Butler, Recoll. G. Butler (1893), 483. An athlete quite unboastful, a sportsman silent about his exploits.

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