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 2:171. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation