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Definitioner
Verb
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Substantiv
- A boast; an instance of vaunting.
- (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.
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