V'AUNT, L. vanus. This ought to be written vant.
To boast to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations to talk with vain ostentation to brag.
Pride - prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is.
V'AUNT, To boast of to make a vain display of.
My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself. 1 Corinthians 13 .
V'AUNT, n. Boast a vain display of what one is or has, or has done ostentation from vanity.
Him I seduc'd with other vaunts and other promises.
V'AUNT, n. The first part. Not used.
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