GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   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.
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   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. In the latter sense, the term usually used is flaunt.
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   Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
   1 Cor. xiii. 4.
   
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   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.
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   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.
   
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   And what so else his person most may vaunt.
   Spenser.
   
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