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VAUNT
vaunt
(noun) extravagant self-praise
boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
(verb) show off
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
(intransitive) To speak boastfully.
(transitive) To speak boastfully about.
(transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Synonyms
• (speak boastfully): boast, brag
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
A boast; an instance of vaunting.
Etymology 2
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
(obsolete) The first part.
Anagrams
• Tuvan
Source: Wiktionary
Vaunt, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.] Etym: [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: 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.
Definition: 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. Etym: [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]
Definition: The first part. [Obs.] Shak.
Vaunt, v. t. Etym: [See Avant, Advance.]
Definition: To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." Spenser. And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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