Forswollen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Forswollen is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
Meaning
(obsolete) Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
Example Sentences
Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie In his owne filth:
Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground, The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide.
mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315, “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overswollen, puffed, orgulous, inflated, overboastful, swell-headed.
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