About The Word Vaunt
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Vaunt
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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. |
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