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BOASTING
boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
(noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
boasting
present participle of boast
Noun
boasting (plural boastings)
The making of boasts.
Anagrams
• boatings, bostangi
Source: Wiktionary
Boast"ing, n.
Definition: The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
BOAST
Boast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boasting.] Etym: [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.]
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. Eph. ii. 8, 9.
2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xiiv. 8
Syn.
– To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
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. Milton.
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. Prov. xxvii.
Boast, v. t. Etym: [Of uncertain etymology.]
1. (Masonry)
Definition: To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.
2. (Sculp.)
Definition: To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast, n.
1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. Reason and morals and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron.
2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. The boast of historians. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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