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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

V'AUNT, v.i. [L. vanus. This ought to be written vant.]
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, v.t. To boast of; to make a vain display of.
My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself. 1 Corinthians 13.
V'AUNT, n. Boast; a vain display of what one is or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity.
Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.
V'AUNT, n. The first part. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: extravagant self-praise v
1: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vanter, from Late Latin vanitare, frequentative of Latin *vanare, from vanus vain Date: 15th century intransitive verb to make a vain display of one's own worth or attainments ; brag transitive verb to call attention to pridefully and often boastfully <people who vaunt their ingenuity> Synonyms: see boast • vaunter noun • vauntingly adverb II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a vainglorious display of what one is or has or has done 2. a bragging assertive statement

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. literary --v. 1 intr. boast, brag. 2 tr. boast of; extol boastfully. --n. a boast. Derivatives: vaunter n. vauntingly adv. Etymology: ME f. AF vaunter, OF vanter f. LL vantare f. L vanus VAIN: partly obs. avaunt (v.) f. avanter f. a- intensive + vanter

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Brag, boast. II. v. a. Brag of, boast of, make a display of, make a boast of, show off, display with ostentation. III. n. Boast, brag.

Moby Thesaurus

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