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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Boast \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.
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            Lest bad men should boast
            Their specious deeds.                 --Milton.
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   2. To display vaingloriously.
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   3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
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   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]
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            Boast not thyself of to-morrow.       --Prov. xxvii.
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