sound out vs vaunt

sound out

verb
  • To speak or sing loudly, to call out. 

  • To pronounce a word or phrase by articulating each of its letters or syllables slowly in sequence. 

  • To question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference, especially by using indirect conversational remarks. 

vaunt

verb
  • To speak boastfully. 

  • To speak boastfully about. 

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

noun
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting. 

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