modesty vs vaunt

modesty

noun
  • Moderate behaviour; reserve. 

  • Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness. 

  • The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. 

vaunt

verb
  • To speak boastfully about. 

  • To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. 

  • To speak boastfully. 

noun
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting. 

How often have the words modesty and vaunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )