To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self- commendation.

To brag, or vaunt one’s self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one’s own worth, property, or actions.

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 Corinthians 9:2. Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.

To exalt one’s self. With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezekiel 35:13 .

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.

Magnify or exalt. They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalm 49:6.

To exult in confident expectation. Boast not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1.

Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting. Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:23.

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