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vaunt
[ vawnt, vahnt ]
verb (used with object)
- to speak vaingloriously of; boast of:
to vaunt one's achievements.
verb (used without object)
- to speak boastfully; brag.
noun
- a boastful action or utterance.
vaunt
/ vɔːnt /
verb
- tr to describe, praise, or display (one's success, possessions, etc) boastfully
- rare.intr to use boastful language; brag
noun
- a boast
- archaic.ostentatious display
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Derived Forms
- ˈvaunter, noun
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Other Words From
- vaunter noun
- vaunting·ly adverb
- outvaunt verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vaunt1
C14: from Old French vanter, from Late Latin vānitāre to brag, from Latin vānus vain
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Example Sentences
This much-vaunted turnout operation turns out not to have deserved much vaunt.
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I might have guessed that in some such cutthroat manner would your vaunt of winning me at the sword-point be accomplished.
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Caroline should keep watch over herself; you vaunt silence as the surest method of being witty.
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He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.
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Such men our modern universities appropriately claim the right to vaunt proudly as the products of their training.
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No person is to vaunt himself above others or find fault with the efforts of others while lauding his own.
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