6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vaunted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Vaunting}.] [F. vanter, LL vanitare fr L. vanus vain. See
{Vain}.]
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth,
attainments, decorations, or the like to talk
ostentatiously; to brag.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what
he is does incline him to disvalue what he has --Gov.
of Tongue.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t.
To boast of to make a vain display of to display with
ostentation.
Charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up --1 Cor.
xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n.
A vain display of what one is or has or has done
ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises
and other vaunts. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before fore. See {Avant},
{Vanguard}.]
The first part [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See {Avant}, {Advance}.]
To put forward; to display. [Obs.] ``Vaunted spear.''
--Spenser.
And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vaunt
n : extravagant self-praise
v : show off [syn: {boast}, {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line}, {brag},
{gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {gasconade}]
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