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vaunt |
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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