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