braving
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
braving
- present participle and gerund of brave
Noun[edit]
braving (plural bravings)
- A bravado; a boast.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- With so proud a strain / Of threats and bravings.