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verb

Boast v. t.

To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. "Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds."

To display vaingloriously.

To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. (Archaic) "Boast not thyself of to-morrow."

Boast v. t.

(Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Boast v. i. (past & past part. boasted; pres. part. boasting)

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. "By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:... not of works, lest any man should boast."

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. "In God we boast all the day long."

Synonyms: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.

noun

Boast n.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. "Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!"

The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. "The boast of historians."

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Etymology of 'Boast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Boast" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the Capitol at Rome, and is still the most charming and most illustrious work of ancient art the world can boast of. But if ever it shall be your fortune to stand before it and go into the customary ecstasies over it, don't permit this true and secret history of its origin to mar your bliss—and when you read about a gigantic Petrified man being dug up near Syracuse, in the State of New York, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... she did with the "subjects" she had previously professed with equal authority; no one had ever yet discovered. 'Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. It was Mrs. Ballinger's boast that she was "abreast with the Thought of the Day," and her pride that this advanced position should be expressed by the books on her table. These volumes, frequently renewed, and almost always damp from the press, bore names generally unfamiliar to Mrs. Leveret, and giving her, as she furtively ...

— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton

... to place her comfortably here, but beyond a speaking acquaintance with Gerty, who confessed that she was too charitable to be exclusive she had not as yet approached that small shining sphere whose inmates boast the larger freedom no less than the finer discrimination. The larger freedom, it seemed at times, was all of it that she was ever to attain, for, venturing a little too boldly once or twice with a light head, ...

— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... Montegnac forest, near Limoges; was an acquaintance of Foedora through Valentin; was a visitor of the Princesse de Cadignan, after the death of their common father-in-law, of whom he had little to make boast, especially in matters of finance. The Duc de Navarrein's mansion at Paris was on the rue du Bac. [A Bachelor's Establishment. The Thirteen. Jealousies of a Country Town. The Peasantry. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life. The Country Parson. The Magic Skin. The Gondreville Mystery. ...

— Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z • Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe

... boast of the indomitable courage, the many self-denials, the homely virtues of our forefathers, think you that we in America are degenerate sons of noble sires? I trow not! ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

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