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(Synop., § 130), v. i. [imp. & p. p. VAUNTED; p. pr. & vb. n. VAUNTING.] [Fr. vanter, Pr. vantar, It. vantare, L. Lat. vanitare, from Lat. vanus, vain. Cf. VANT.] To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag. Pride . . . prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is. Gov. of the Tongue.
v. t. 1. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 4. My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. Milton. 2. To put forward; to advance; to display. [Obs.] “Vaunted spear.” Spenser. “And what so else his person most may vaunt.” Spenser.
n. [It. vanto, Pr. van. See supra.] A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; boast.
Him I seduced With other vaunts and other promises. Milton.