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To boast one's self

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.

    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. 1