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Vaunt

Vaunt (vaunt)
v. i.(?)
Vaunt
[imp. *** p. p. Vaunted] p. pr. *** vb. n. Vaunting.] [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.]
  1. 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.

Vaunt

Vaunt (vaunt)
v. t.
Vaunt
  1. 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.

Vaunt

Vaunt (vaunt)
n.
Vaunt
  1. 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.

Vaunt

Vaunt (vaunt)
n.
Vaunt
  1. The first part.
    [Obs.] Shak.

Vaunt

Vaunt (vaunt)
v. t.
Vaunt
  1. To put forward; to display.
    [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." Spenser.

    And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.













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