BOAST (4)

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Boast, n. 1. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron. 2. 2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, — sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians. Macaulay.