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vaunt
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Vaunt
(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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Vaunt
(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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Vaunt
(gcide) | Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant,
Vanguard.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Vaunt
(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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Vaunt
(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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vaunt
(wn) | vaunt
n 1: extravagant self-praise
v 1: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line,
brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade] |
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vaunted
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vaunter
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vauntingly
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Avaunt
(gcide) | Avaunt \A*vaunt"\ ([.a]*v[add]nt" or [.a]*v[aum]nt"), interj.
[F. avant forward, fr. L. ab + ante before. Cf. Avant,
Advance.]
Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence,
equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."
[1913 Webster]Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, v. t. & i.
1. To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. To depart; to move away. [Obs.] --Coverdale.
[1913 Webster]Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, v. t. & i. [OF. avanter; [`a] (L. ad) +
vanter. See Vaunt.]
To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, n.
A vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Avauntour
(gcide) | Avauntour \A*vaunt"our\, n. [OF. avanteur.]
A boaster. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Vaunt
(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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant,
Vanguard.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]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-courier
(gcide) | Vaunt-courier \Vaunt"-cou`ri*er\, n.
See Van-courier. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Vaunted
(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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Vaunter
(gcide) | Vaunter \Vaunt"er\, n.
One who vaunts; a boaster.
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Vauntful
(gcide) | Vauntful \Vaunt"ful\, a.
Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful;
vainglorious.
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Vaunting
(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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Vauntingly
(gcide) | Vauntingly \Vaunt"ing*ly\, adv.
In a vaunting manner.
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Vauntmure
(gcide) | Vauntmure \Vaunt"mure`\, n. [F. avant-mur. See Vanguard, and
Mure.] (Fort.)
A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall.
[Written also vaimure, and vamure.] --Camden.
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vaunter
(wn) | vaunter
n 1: a very boastful and talkative person [syn: bragger,
braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter,
vaunter] |
vauntingly
(wn) | vauntingly
adv 1: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn:
boastfully, vauntingly, big, large] |
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