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Webster 1913 Edition
Vaunt
Vaunt
(vänt or va̤nt; 277)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Vaunted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vaunting
.] 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
,Verb.
T.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is
flaunt
. Charity
vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his
vaunted
spoil. Milton.
Vaunt
,Noun.
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
With other promises and other
vaunts
. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vaunt
V'AUNT
,Verb.
I.
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag.
Pride - prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is.
V'AUNT
,Verb.
T.
My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself. 1Cor. 13.
V'AUNT
,Noun.
Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.
V'AUNT
,Noun.
Definition 2025
vaunt
vaunt
English
Verb
vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
- Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
- Milton
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
- Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
speak boastfully — see boast
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- A boast; an instance of vaunting.
- Milton
- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- 1904 — G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book II, chapter III
- He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.
- Milton
Translations
Instance of vaunting
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Etymology 2
French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- (obsolete) The first part.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)