boast

BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.] 1. To brag, or vaunt one's self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one's own worth, property, or actions. 2. To glory; to speak with laudable pride and ostentation of meritorious persons or things. I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2. Cor.9. Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in. 3. To exalt one's self. With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek. BOAST, verb transitive To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation. Lest men should boast their specious deeds. 1. Magnify or exalt. They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6. 2. To exult in confident expectation. BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1. BOAST, noun Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting. Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17 1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation. Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.