Vaunt
Vaunt (vant or vant; 277) , intransitive verb
[French vanter, Late Latin vanitare, from Latin vanus vain. See Vain.]
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has.
Vaunt , transitive verb
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is flaunt.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
Vaunt , noun
A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
The spirits beneath, whom I seduced
With other promises and other vaunts.
Vaunt , noun
[French avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]
The first part. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Vaunt , transitive verb
To put forward; to display. [Obsolete]
Vaunted spear.
And what so else his person most may vaunt.