2. Verb. (third-person singular of boast) ¹
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Definition of Boasts
1. boast [v] - See also: boast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boasts
Literary usage of Boasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"It does not appear so rich as the smaller church, but boasts of a little organ,
which sent forth singularly inharmonious cries. ..."
2. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1860)
"HE boasts THAT "ON THE OTHER SIDE HE is HATED LIKE A DOG." — ROBERT WRIGHT AND
LORD RICH CONVERTED. — METHOD OF EXAMINATION IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. ..."
3. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"—President Davis' boasts.—His noble allusion to history.—How tho cause of tho
Confederacy was in danger.—PROPOSITION TO ARM THE SLAVES or -THE SOUTH. ..."
4. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"CHAPTER VL Interest felt by the Laity—Luther's Opinion—Confession and boasts oi
Doctor Eck—Effects of the ..."
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