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boast (used both intr. and refl. in the usual sense)
1. to display proudly Lucr. 55 “When beauty boasted blushes.”
2. “boast off,” to cry up, praise highly Tp. IV. i. 9.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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