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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

(megalaucheo, "proud brags"): Occurs only in the Apocrypha (2 Macc 15:32), not being sufficiently dignified to be given a place in the canonical Scriptures by the King James translators (compare Judith 16:5).