vaunt
[verb]
Synonyms: boast, blow, brag, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, gasconade, mouth, prate, puff, rodomontade

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Related Idioms: puff oneself
Related Words: brandish, display, exhibit, expose, flaunt, parade, show off

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vaunt verb. [vɔ:nt] Now arch. or literary. LME.
[Anglo-Norman vaunter, Old & mod. French vanter from late Latin vanitare frequentative of vanare speak empty words, from vanus vain, empty: partly aphet. from AVAUNT verb¹.]
1. verb intrans. Use boastful or vainglorious language; brag. (Foll. by in, of, on.) Now rare. LME.
■ Boswell He did not vaunt of his new dignity.

2. verb refl.
a. Boast, brag, (of). Also with adjective compl. LME.
b. Bear oneself proudly or vaingloriously. L16-M17.
Bible (AV): 1 Corinthians 13:4 Charitie vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed up.

3. verb trans. Extol boastfully, brag of (a thing); claim boastfully that. Freq. as vaunted ppl adjective. E16.
■ J. H. Newman Attila vaunted that the grass never grew again after his horse's hoof.
■ C. Thubron The vaunted equality of Russian women is a mirage.
b. Proclaim or display proudly. Only in L16.

■ vaunter noun LME.

■ vaunting noun the action of the verb; an instance of this, a boast: LME.

■ vaunting adjective boastful, ostentatious L16.

■ vauntingly adverb L16.

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vaunt noun².L16-E17.
[Repr. vaunt- in VAUNT-COURIER etc.]
A front part or portion; esp. the vanguard of an army.

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vaunt noun¹. [vɔ:nt] Now arch. or literary. LME.
[Aphet. from AVAUNT noun¹.]
1. Boasting, bragging; boastful or vainglorious speech. LME.
■ W. H. Prescott With all the vaunt and insolent port of a conqueror.

2. A boastful assertion; a boast, a brag. L16.
Times Literary Supplement Symon's letters..are full of vaunts about sex.

3. A subject of boasting. rare. L18.
Phrases: make a vaunt, make vaunt (now rare) boast, brag, (of).

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