Vaunt
[vɔːnt]
Definition
(v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
(v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
(n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
(n.) The first part.
(v. t.) To put forward; to display.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Brag, boast.
v. a. Brag of, boast of, make a display of, make a boast of, show off.
n. Boast, brag.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Boast, brag, puff, hawk, trumpet, cackle, advertise, {make_a_display_of},flourish, cry, parade
ANT:Repress, suppress, conceal, disparage, decry, detract
Typist: Pierce
Definition
n. (Shak.) the first part.
v.i. to make a vain display: to boast.—v.t. to make a vain display of: to boast of.—n. vain display: boast.—ns. Vaun′ter; Vaun′tery vaunting.—adj. Vaunt′ful.—n. Vaun′ting.—adv. Vaun′tingly.
Checker: Rene
Examples
- A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A most pithy vaunt, said he--one that redounds vastly to the credit of your dear Yorkshire friends. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Spit in the fire if thou must vaunt thy courage. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Bear with me, brother, although I should something vaunt myself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She saw perfectly well the other woman's vaunt: it seemed truly vulgar. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The vaunted skill turns out gross ineptitude. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We cannot touch the disease, with all our poor vaunted skill. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The vaunted steadiness of pulse failed him for an instant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To reverse the process of the transformation and produce radium from the base metal lead would be an achievement greater than the vaunted transmutations of the alchemists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Would to God, Richard, or any of his vaunting minions of England, would appear in these lists! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She noted this new expression of vaunting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As the matter is, disturb not the peaceful hall with vaunts of the issue of the conflict, which you well know cannot take place. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Marietta