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 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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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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