Vaunt /(vänt [or] va̤nt; 277)/

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.

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.

   My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

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.

1. The first part. [Obs.]

1. To put forward; to display. [Obs.]

   And what so else his person most may vaunt.