VAUNTED

Adjective

vaunted (comparative more vaunted, superlative most vaunted)

Highly or widely praised or boasted about.

Verb

vaunted

simple past tense and past participle of vaunt

Source: Wiktionary

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VAUNT

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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