bobance

alternative bobaunce

1. archaicBoasting.

   "We've had enough bobance and boasting" said Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet.

   1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, →ISBN, page 68

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   Than thou behelde the synners and the good men; and whan thou saw the synners overcom, thou enclyned to that party for bobbaunce and pryde of the worlde [...].

   1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV

   ye recke not for honesty, no nor for your own law, nor for deeds of mercy and charity, but in folly, and in Bobance

   1808, James G. Savage, The Librarian

   she distributed her own clothing amongst the poor, thus demonstrating that the pomp and bobance of the world should be eschewed, and she conformed her unto the Virgin Mary'

   2002, Gail Ashton, The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography: speaking the saint, →ISBN, page 44