vaunt
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vɔːnt/
- Rhymes: -ɔːnt
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "some accents" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vɑːnt/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnt
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vɔnt/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cot-caught" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /vɑnt/
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Etymology 1
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
Verb
vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Cor Cor-Chapter-xiii/#4 xiii:4:
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
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Derived terms
Translations
speak boastfully — see boast
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- A boast; an instance of vaunting.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
- “In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […] ”
- 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book II, chapter III
- He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.
Translations
Instance of vaunting
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Etymology 2
French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- (obsolete) The first part.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vaunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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