vaunt Meaning, Definition & Usage

Vaunt intransitive verb

Etymology

F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Vaunted; present participle & verbal noun Vaunting

Definitions

1. To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

   Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.

Vaunt transitive verb

Definitions

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.

Vaunt noun

Definitions

1. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.

   The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. Milton.

Vaunt noun

Etymology

F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.

Definitions

1. The first part. Obs. Shak.

Vaunt transitive verb

Etymology

See Avant, Advance.

Definitions

1. To put forward; to display. Obs. "Vaunted spear." Spenser.

   And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.