vaunt, vaunte

i. & t. [Fr. vanter, se vanter =to vaunt, to boast, from Low Lat. vanito to speak vanity, to flatter, to boast, from Lat. van us =vain (q. v.); Ital. vantare.] IMG:content-0419.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To boast of; to brag of; to magnify or glorify with vanity. "My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil." Milton: P. L., iii. 251. *2. To display or put forward boastfully. vâunt (1), s. [VAUNT, v.] A bragging, a boasting; a boast, a brag; ostentation from vanity. "The haughty captive, who had made his vaunts To lay their dwellings level." Dryden: Love Triumphant, i. 1. *vâunt (2), s. [Fr. avant before, in front.) The first beginning; the first part. "Our play Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida . (Prol.) *vaunt-courier, s . A precursor, a van-courier. "Vaunt- couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts." Shakesp.: Lear , iii. 2.