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English Dictionary: vaunt	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for vaunt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vaunt n extravagant self-praise v show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant}, {Vanguard}.] The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See {Avant}, {Advance}.] To put forward; to display. [Obs.] [bd]Vaunted spear.[b8] --Spenser. And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.