Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. 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.
Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant}, {Vanguard}.] The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See {Avant}, {Advance}.] To put forward; to display. [Obs.] ``Vaunted spear.'' --Spenser.
And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vaunting}.] [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See {Vain}.] To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov. of Tongue.
Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor. xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton.