vaunt

verb

1. (intransitive)To speak boastfully.

   “"The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."”

2. (transitive)To speak boastfully about.
3. (transitive)To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

   “Near-synonym: flaunt”

   “Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”

   “My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.”

noun

1. An instance of vaunting; a boast.

   “the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts”

   ““In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]””

   “He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric. He has lifted the only shield I cannot break, the shield of an impenetrable pomposity.”

2. (obsolete)The first part.

   “the vaunt and firstlings of those broils”