V'AUNT, v.i. [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, v.t. To boast of; to make a vain display of. My vanquisher, spoil'd of his vaunted spoil.Charity vaunteth not itself. 1Cor. 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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