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Vaunt Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Vaunt? [n] extravagant self-praise [v] show off Synonyms \| Synonyms for Vaunt: blow \| bluster \| boast \| brag \| gas \| gasconade \| shoot a line \| swash \| tout Related Terms \| Find terms related to Vaunt: See Also \| amplify \| boast \| boasting \| crow \| exaggerate \| gloat \| hyerbolise \| hyperbolize \| jactitation \| magnify \| overdraw \| overstate \| puff \| self-praise \| triumph Vaunt In Webster's Dictionary \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. \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. \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. \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant}, {Vanguard}.] The first part. [Obs.] --Shak. \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.

Vaunt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Vaunt?

[n] extravagant self-praise
[v] show off

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Vaunt In Webster's Dictionary

\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.


\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.


\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.


\Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant},
{Vanguard}.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.


\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.

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