Vaunt vs Praise - What's the difference?
vaunt | praise |
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 vaunt and praise
is that vaunt is to speak boastfully while praise is to give praise to.As nouns the difference between vaunt and praise
is that vaunt is a boast; an instance of vaunting while praise is commendation; favourable representation in words.vaunt
English
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.