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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

... attempted in years—and it was recalled more than once, when de Spain's feat was discussed at the ranches, on the trails, and in the haunts of gunmen in Calabasas, that no one of those who had ever braved the wrath of the Sink rulers had lived indefinitely to boast of it. ...

— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman

... reached, and they were of a felted and porous texture admirably calculated to accumulate drifting matter. Many women wore skirts of similar substances, and of so long and inconvenient a form that they inevitably trailed among all the abomination of our horse-frequented roads. It was our boast in England that the whole of our population was booted—their feet were for the most part ugly enough to need it,—but it becomes now inconceivable how they could have imprisoned their feet in the amazing cases of leather and imitations of leather they used. I have ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... there of Moriane, More felon none in all the land of Spain. Before Marsile his vaunting boast hath made: "To Rencesvals my company I'll take, A thousand score, with shields and lances brave. Find I Rollanz, with death I'll him acquaint; Day shall not dawn but Charles will make his ...

— The Song of Roland • Anonymous

... unfortunate beings bandied about from one set of drunken gamblers to another for days together. How much to be deprecated are the laws which suffer such abuses to exist! Yet these are the laws enacted by the people who boast of their love of liberty and independence, and who presume to say, that it is in the breasts of Americans alone that the blessings of freedom are held in just estimation."—Isaac Weld, Jr., "Travels through the States of North America and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada," ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... submit to what I acknowledge and feel to be right. I will submit even to what is unreasonable from my father, but I will not submit to it from you. You boast of your virtues as if they purchased you a right to be cruel and unmanly, as you've been to-day. Don't suppose I would give up Philip Wakem in obedience to you. The deformity you insult would make me cling to him and care for ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

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