vaunt
- n extravagant self-praise
- v show off
- Sample: "'Ha, my lords,' Leofric cried, 'ye heard the vaunt of this foul clapperclaw rogue? .
- While we do not need to boast of our prosperity or vaunt our ability to accumulate wealth, I see no occasion to apologize for it.
- We vaunt a government to encourage business, yet government bureaus are now in competition with more than 250 lines of business; a government to protect property, yet one-fifth .