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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Boasteth

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Boast

BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.]

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

2. 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. Cor.9.

Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.

3. To exalt one's self.

With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek.

BOAST, verb transitive 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.

1. Magnify or exalt.

They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6.

2. To exult in confident expectation.

BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1.

BOAST, noun Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting.

Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17

1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.

Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Boaster

BOASTER, noun One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously.


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Boastful

BOASTFUL,adjective Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions.


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Boasting

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Boasting

BOASTING, participle present tense Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting.

BOASTING, noun Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting.

Where is boasting then? Romans 3:27.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Boastingly

BOASTINGLY, adverb In an ostentatious manner; with boasting.


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Boastive

BOASTIVE, adjective Presumptuous. [Unusual.]


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Boastless

BOASTLESS, adjective Without ostentation.


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