Noah Webster
Vaunt
V'AUNT, verb intransitive [Latin vanus. This ought to be written vant.]
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag.
Pride - prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is.
V'AUNT, verb transitive To boast of; to make a vain display of.
My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself. 1 Corinthians 13:4.
V'AUNT, noun Boast; a vain display of what one is or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity.
Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.
V'AUNT, noun The first part. [Not used.]