'Vaunt' definitions:
Definition of 'vaunt'
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Definition of 'Vaunt'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Vaunt'
From: GCIDE
- Vaunt \Vaunt\, 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]
Definition of 'Vaunt'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Vaunt'
From: 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. [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]
Definition of 'Vaunt'
From: 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. [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]
Synonyms of 'vaunt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertise,
- air,
- blazon,
- blazon forth,
- blow,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brandish,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- conceit,
- crow,
- dangle,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- draw the longbow,
- eclat,
- emblazon,
- etalage,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flash,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- heroics,
- histrionics,
- hold up,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- mouth,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- prate,
- puff,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- rodomontade,
- sham,
- show,
- show off,
- showing-off,
- side,
- speak for Buncombe,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sport,
- staginess,
- swagger,
- theatrics,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- wave