BOVARISM


Meaning of BOVARISM in English

— bovarist , n. — bovaristic , adj.

/boh"veuh riz'euhm/ , n.

an exaggerated, esp. glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.

[ 1900-05; bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1857); see -ISM ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .