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vaunt
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor. xiii. 4. [1913 Webster] My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.] The first part. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See Avant, Advance.] To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." --Spenser. [1913 Webster] And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
