rodomontade

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Real convictions were sometimes diluted with rodomontade, and a true feeling was to some extent stimulated by the desire to embarrass a rival Entire freedom from prejudice would have been too much to expect (p. 153) from Mr. Adams; but his criticisms of Clay are seldom marked by any serious accusations or really bitter explosions of ill-temper.

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  1. noun Pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster: "a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade” (John Morley).
  2. adjective Pretentiously boastful or bragging.
  3. intransitive verb To boast or brag; bluster.

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  • The letter ended with two paragraphs of that patriotic rodomontade which seems eminently adapted to domestic consumption in the United States, but which, if it ever came beneath the eye of the British minister, probably produced an effect very different from that which was aimed at. —  Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.
  • Forthwith he wrote a bit of rodomontade which he bade Brent memorize and had the satisfaction soon to hear from the lion-trainer, to whom was intrusted all that pertained to the exhibition of these kings of beasts, that the rehearsal was altogether satisfactory An immense audience was assembled in the great tent. —  Una Of The Hill Country 1911
  • Real convictions were sometimes diluted with rodomontade, and a true feeling was to some extent stimulated by the desire to embarrass a rival Entire freedom from prejudice would have been too much to expect (p. 153) from Mr. Adams; but his criticisms of Clay are seldom marked by any serious accusations or really bitter explosions of ill-temper. —  John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series
  • Among their opponents the most formidable are Rogero and the pagan Rodomont, whose boastful language has given rise to the term rodomontade. —  The Book of the Epic
  • The occasion of this rodomontade was a meeting of Third-Corps veterans, and its outcome was a series of resolutions aimed at the person who had dared to reflect on Gen. Hooker's capacity, and to refer to the question of Gen. Hooker's habitual use of stimulants. —  The Campaign of Chancellorsville
 

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  1. French, from Italian rodomontada, from Rodomonte, arrogant Saracen leader in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

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  1. Formerly also rhodomontade, rodomontado; = German rodomontade, from Old French rodemontade, rodomontade, rotomontade, French rodomontade, from Italian rodomontata, a boast, brag, from rodomonte, a boaster: see rodomont.
  2. from rodomontade, n.
 

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