vaunt

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."

To speak boastfully about.

To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

An instance of vaunting; a boast.

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! […]”

The first part.

the vaunt and firstlings of those broils