brandish vs vaunt

brandish

verb
  • To bear something with ostentatious show. 

  • To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill. 

noun
  • The act of flourishing or waving. 

vaunt

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

  • To speak boastfully about. 

  • To speak boastfully. 

noun
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting. 

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