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Miles gloriosus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A standard character in ancient comedy and in modern comedy depicting ancient military figures: the bravado-filled, self-important, swaggering soldier. literary

    "[I]t of course ought not to be said that the General who assumes the responsibility behaved "generously" on one occasion and "magnanimously" upon another. About such expressions there is a reminiscence of the classical "Miles gloriosus" of the British Nelson, or of the American Winfield Scott."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of miles gloriosus. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    a braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy) wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīles (“soldier”) + glōriōsus (“glorious”).

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