Both Uses of
vaunted
in
Listening - One Writer's Beginnings - Chpt 1
- I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer.†
*vaunting = extravagantly praising or boasting
- It is always vaunting, of course, to imagine yourself inside another person, but it is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.†
Definition:
extravagantly praised or boasted