vaunt /ˈvɔnt, ˈvɑnt/
(vt.)(vi.)自誇自吹自擂
Vaunt v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.] 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. 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. --Milton.
Vaunt, n. 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. --Milton.
Vaunt, n. The first part. [Obs.]
Vaunt, v. t. To put forward; to display. [Obs.] “Vaunted spear.”
And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
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vaunt
n : extravagant self-praise
v : show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag,
gas, blow, bluster, gasconade]