V'AUNT, verb intransitive [Latin 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, verb transitive To boast of; to make a vain display of. My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil. Charity vaunteth not itself. 1 Corinthians 13:4. V'AUNT, noun 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, noun The first part. [Not used.]
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