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