Word of the Day: THRASONICAL


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Thrason-, Thraso Thraso, braggart soldier in the comedy Eunuchus by Terence


EXAMPLE
“…I in times paste haue sene, might be worthely thought, in comparison of this Thrasonicall and glorious ostentation, to haue had muche modesty…”

From: The Letters of the Martyrs 
By Miles Coverdale, 1564

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