Dictionary entry

Boast (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.