vaunt

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A boast; an instance of vaunting

He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.

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..

{n} a boast, vain ostentation, first part
{v} to boast, brag, talk, largely, display
The first part
A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag
{f} boast, brag, exaggerate about oneself
{i} act or instance of boasting
show off
extravagant self-praise
To put forward; to display
vaunted
Simple past tense and past participle of vaunt
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Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart
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boastful
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boasting
vaunter
{n} a boaster, braggart, braggadocio
vaunting
{n} boasting, ostentation, parade
vauntingly
{a} boastingly, with vain ostentation
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Highly or widely praised or boasted about
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If you describe something as vaunted or much vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves. Simpson's much vaunted discoveries are in fact commonplace in modern sociology. a plan, system, achievement etc that is vaunted is praised or talked about too much and in a way that is too proud (vanter, from vanitare , from vanitas; VANITY)
vaunted
{s} highly praised; extremely boasted
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past of vaunt
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One who vaunts; a boaster
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a very boastful and talkative person
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{i} line-shooter, person who is an arrogant boaster, extremely arrogant and loquacious person, braggart
vauntingly
boastfully, while bragging
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In a vaunting manner
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