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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vaunt
vaunt
n : extravagant self-praise
v : show off [syn:
boast,
tout,
swash,
shoot a line,
brag,
gas,
blow,
bluster,
gasconade]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vaunt
Vaunt
\Vaunt\, n.
A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done;
ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
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The spirits beneath, whom I seduced
With other promises and other vaunts. --Milton.
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Vaunt
\Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See
Avant,
Vanguard.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Vaunt
\Vaunt\, v. t. [See
Avant,
Advance.]
To put forward; to display. [Obs.]
“Vaunted spear.”
--Spenser.
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And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
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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.
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Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what
he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov.
of Tongue.
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Vaunt
\Vaunt\, v. t.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with
ostentation.
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Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor.
xiii. 4.
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My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton.
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