What does vaunt mean?
Vaunt means (intransitive) To speak boastfully..
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/vɔːnt/ · verb
(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."
Near-synonym: flaunt
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
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.
the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
Use vaunt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vaunt means (intransitive) To speak boastfully..
Common synonyms include boast, brag, flaunt, bluster.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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."
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