*vaunt*

v. t. & i. 1. To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To depart; to move away. [ Obs. ] Coverdale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OF. avanter; à (L. ad) + vanter. See Vaunt. ] To vaunt; to boast. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vaunt; to boast. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avanteur. ] A boaster. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spirits beneath, whom I seduced
With other promises and other vaunts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard. ] The first part. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. See Van-courier. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who vaunts; a boaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a vaunting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]