Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.]

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

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.

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Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]

The first part. [Obs.]

--Shak.

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Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See Avant, Advance.]

To put forward; to display. [Obs.]

``Vaunted spear.'' --Spenser.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)