Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vaunt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what
he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov.
of Tongue.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaunt \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaunt \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant},
{Vanguard}.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaunt \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vaunt
n : extravagant self-praise
v : show off [syn: {boast}, {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line}, {brag},
{gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {gasconade}]
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