Vaunt /(vänt [or] va̤nt; 277)/

Vaunt

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting

  1. 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.
    — Gov. of Tongue.

Vaunt

v. t.
  1. 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.
    — 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
    My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

Vaunt

n.
  1. 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

n.
  1. The first part. [Obs.]

Vaunt

v. t.
  1. To put forward; to display. [Obs.]
    And what so else his person most may vaunt.