Vaunt \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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Vaunt \Vaunt\ (v[aum]nt or v[add]nt; 277), 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 \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 \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 \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant,
Vanguard.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
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vaunt
n : extravagant self-praise
v : show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag,
gas, blow, bluster, gasconade]
WordNet (r) 2.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaunt":
advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast,
boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism,
bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy,
cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash,
demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow,
eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism,
false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting,
flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up,
jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant,
pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward,
rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side,
speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess,
swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor,
vauntery, vaunting, wave
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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