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What (who) is Vaunt - definition
vaunt
TO SPEAK WITH EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF
Braggart; Boast; Bragging rights; Self-aggrandizement; Bragging; Self-praise; Boastful speech; Vaunt; Vaunting; Gloating; Braggadocianism; Bragging Rights; Self-aggrandize; Self aggrandize; Self-aggrandizing; Self aggrandizing; Self-aggrandise; Self aggrandise; Self-aggrandising; Self aggrandising; Show Off; Toot your own horn; Boaster; Boasted; Boastful; Boasts; Avaunt
I. v. n.
Brag, boast.
II. v. a.
Brag of, boast of, make a display of, make a boast of, show off, display with ostentation.
III. n.
Boast, brag.
Vaunt
TO SPEAK WITH EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF
Braggart; Boast; Bragging rights; Self-aggrandizement; Bragging; Self-praise; Boastful speech; Vaunt; Vaunting; Gloating; Braggadocianism; Bragging Rights; Self-aggrandize; Self aggrandize; Self-aggrandizing; Self aggrandizing; Self-aggrandise; Self aggrandise; Self-aggrandising; Self aggrandising; Show Off; Toot your own horn; Boaster; Boasted; Boastful; Boasts; Avaunt
·noun The first part.
II. Vaunt ·vt To put forward; to Display.
III. Vaunt ·vt To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
IV. Vaunt ·noun A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
vaunt
TO SPEAK WITH EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF
Braggart; Boast; Bragging rights; Self-aggrandizement; Bragging; Self-praise; Boastful speech; Vaunt; Vaunting; Gloating; Braggadocianism; Bragging Rights; Self-aggrandize; Self aggrandize; Self-aggrandizing; Self aggrandizing; Self-aggrandise; Self aggrandise; Self-aggrandising; Self aggrandising; Show Off; Toot your own horn; Boaster; Boasted; Boastful; Boasts; Avaunt
[v?:nt]
¦ verb [usu. as adjective vaunted] boast about or praise (something) excessively.
¦ noun archaic a boast.
Derivatives
vaunter noun
vaunting adjective
vauntingly adverb
Origin
ME: the noun a shortening of obs. avaunt 'boasting, a boast'; the verb from OFr. vanter, from late L. vantare, based on L. vanus 'vain, empty'.
Examples of use of Vaunt
1. Perhaps not, then, the best place from which to vaunt Dave‘s newfound green and inner–city concerns.
2. Gladiatorial Friday afternoon contests attract up to 800 riders, and powerful warlords and politicians vaunt their prestige and power by offering generous prize money.
3. The traits that Shanghai people vaunt –– business acumen, savoir–faire, the embrace of things foreign –– are not those in which Beijingers have traditionally taken pride.
4. The most pressing question now (in addition to that of how to remove the newspapers from the vicinity of Giless cornflakes) is why the sensitive spinner was allowed to vaunt his persecution complex.
5. It is characteristic of the arrogance with which the puritanical faction comport themselves, that they positively vaunt this early closing on Saturday as a compromise between the demands of the people and their own pretensions.