bobance

• bobaunce (obsolete)

From Middle English bobance, from Old French bobance.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒbəns/

bobance

1. (archaic) Boasting.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:

     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 .

   • 1808, James G. Savage, The Librarian:

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

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

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

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

     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'

• bobaunce

From Old French bobance.

bobance

1. boasting
   • Late 14th century: For certeinly – I sey for no bobance –/ Yet was I nevere wiþouten purveiance / Of mariage, n’of oþere þynges eek. — Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale

• English: bobance

• “bobaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

bobance oblique singular, f (oblique plural bobances, nominative singular bobance, nominative plural bobances)

1. bobance (arrogance; excessive pride)

• → Middle English: bobance, bobaunce
  • English: bobance

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bobance)