vaunt
verb (used with object)
to speak vaingloriously of; boast of.
was vaunting
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past progressiveof vaunt.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A Gascon was vaunting one day, that in his travels he had been caressed wherever he went, and had seen all the great men throughout Europe.
A stranger was vaunting his admiration of them, and was saying that in his own city he was called a lover of Sparta.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
When Hades held the Lord of Life, The boast of sin was vaunting high; ’Twas much to wound a sinless soul, But more to see the God-Man die.
From Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church by John Brownlie
Lord Chesterfield was vaunting to Lord Lovel, that they should have carried it, if they had set up two broomsticks.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
Whilst his friend was vaunting his courage, Harry looked, to say the truth, by no means courageous.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
