vaunt
verb (used with object)
to speak vaingloriously of; boast of.
had vaunted
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past perfectof vaunt.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The sweet English country had yielded up her secrets to me; I knew her spring whimsies, her soft summer moods, her autumn dreams, her wintry tempers, and I had vaunted my faithfulness and love.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Thus Barclay had, singly against all, supported till the very last moment that plan of retreat, which in 1807 he had vaunted to one of our generals as the only expedient for saving Russia.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
I dimly remembered that, in the first days of our journey in search of a mule, Molly had vaunted her friend's beauty, but the silver-grey mushroom prevented me from verifying or disproving this statement.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
And he had vaunted his engagement to her!
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
