Gloat vs Vaunt - What's the difference?
gloat | vaunt |
To exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
To speak boastfully.
* 1829 — , chapter XC
To speak boastfully about.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
* Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
* Milton
A boast; an instance of vaunting.
* Milton
* 1904 — , Book II, chapter III
As verbs the difference between gloat and vaunt
is that gloat is to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune while vaunt is to speak boastfully.As nouns the difference between gloat and vaunt
is that gloat is an act or instance of gloating while vaunt is a boast; an instance of vaunting or vaunt can be (obsolete) the first part.gloat
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Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)References
Anagrams
*vaunt
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Etymology 1
(etyl) vaunter, variant of (etyl) vanter, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- "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."
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
Synonyms
* (speak boastfully) boast, bragDerived terms
* vaunterNoun
(en noun)- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- He has answered me back, vaunt' for ' vaunt , rhetoric for rhetoric.