Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • RP:
  • some accents:
  • US:
  • cot-caught:

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
  2. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
  3. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Substantiv

  1. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
  2. (obsolete) The first part.

Exempel

  • "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."
  • Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
  • My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
  • the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
  • He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipvauntedImperfektvaunted
PresensparticipvauntingPluralvaunts
Tredje person singular indicativ presensvauntsTredje person singular indicativ presensvaunteth