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Look up: boast

  1. boast
    [n] - speaking of yourself in superlatives 2. [v] - show off
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Boast
    Boast intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Boasted ; present participle & verbal noun Boasting .] [ Middle English bosten , boosten , v., bost , boost<...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  3. Boast
    Boast transitive verb 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. » ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  4. Boast
    Boast transitive verb [ Of uncertain etymology.] 1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale. 2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  5. Boast
    Boast noun 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  6. boast
    1. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. ... 2. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. ... Origin: Of uncertain etymology. ... 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. boast
    boasting noun speaking of yourself in superlatives
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. boast
    tout verb show off
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Boast
    • (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. • (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. • (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. • (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. boast
    brag; say great things about yourself
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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