Vaunt

v. i.	1.	To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.] Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. - Gov. of Tongue.
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. - Milton.
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. - Milton.
	1.	The first part.
v. t.	1.	To put forward; to display. And what so else his person most may vaunt. - Spenser.

Noun	1.	vaunt - extravagant self-praise
Verb	1.	vaunt - show off Synonyms: boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, gas, bluster, swash, blow

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