What does "vaunt" mean?
Vaunt: My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. Milton.
- 3.The first part. [Obs.] Shak.
- 4.To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." Spenser. And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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