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Boast   /boʊst/   Listen
verb
Boast  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
To display vaingloriously.
3.
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.  
1.
(Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
2.
(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)  
1.
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."
2.
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.  
1.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. "Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!"
2.
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. "The boast of historians."





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"Boast" Quotes from Famous Books



... took me to Versailles yesterday. I suspect that this, in the eyes of the people here, is rather a ridiculous episode; for I notice the Count did not boast of it. Versailles corresponds entirely with the impressions you had given me of it; for there is not the slightest change since you visited ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... is the only original form of painting that modern times can boast. It has not exhausted itself yet; it is capable of infinite development. Ruysdael, Rembrandt, and the rest, did great scenes, it is true, but it has been left to our painters to put soul into the sunshine of a cornfield, and suggest a whole life of labour in a dull evening sky ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... the corrective qualities of mathematics; but I was too happy to heed her or care. I was stronger and better, I believe, from that day; though I had not much to boast of. A true tonic had been administered to me; my fainting energies took ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell
... Ned said as they made their way down the hill; "don't you say a word about this affair. You haven't got much to boast about in it, sitting there on the grass and doing nothing to help me. I shan't say anything more about that if you hold your tongue; but if you blab I will let all the ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... for your candour," replied Susan, "and will imitate you in my answer. Your obscure parentage cannot be a matter of consideration to one who has no descent to boast of. That you have not always been leading a creditable life, I am sorry for; more sorry because I am sure it must be a source of repentance and mortification to you; but I have not an idle curiosity to wish you to impart ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat


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