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vaunt
v. i. [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. ()
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. (Gov. of Tongue.)
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. ()
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. (1 Cor. xiii. 4.)
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. (Milton.)
n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. ()
The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. (Milton.)
n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.] The first part. (Shak.)
v. t. [See Avant, Advance.] To put forward; to display. (Spenser.)
And what so else his person most may vaunt. (Spenser.)


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