Vaunt

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant},
     {Vanguard}.]
     The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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