sympathize vs vaunt

sympathize

verb
  • To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action). 

  • To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. 

  • To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. 

  • To say in an expression of sympathy. 

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 sympathize and vaunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )