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Meanings of vaunt in English

Portuguese
vangloriar-se
Catalan
gallejar
Spanish
alardear

To show off.

      vangloriar-se
      Usage of vaunt in English
      1
      Thus did he vaunt, but darkness closed the eyes of the other.
      The Iliad
      2
      Thus did he vaunt, and the Argives were stung by his saying.
      The Iliad
      3
      But it is not for me to vaunt myself for my voyages.
      Tales of Fantasy and Fact
      4
      Nor did Agricola ever vaunt his exploits to blazon his own fame.
      The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; /...
      5
      But we met as kindred, if I may vaunt myself so much.
      The Path of a Star
      6
      Nor was the Iroquois less struck with the vaunt of the white man.
      The Deerslayer
      7
      The Easterns generally vaunt themselves on not knowing the day of their birth.
      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
      8
      How vaunt and prophecy were fulfilled, all the world knows now.
      Border and Bastille
      9
      His love had been an inner reverent thing which did not vaunt itself.
      Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
      10
      The impulse to boast, to vaunt his cleverness, was not to be resisted.
      The Furnace of Gold
      11
      I vaunt not myself, yet women have thought me not uncomely.
      Fair Margaret
      12
      But he was too clever a man to vaunt his triumph.
      The Last Shot
      13
      When I shall never again vaunt myself or be puffed up!
      Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
      14
      Indeed, Drury Lane was but little entitled to vaunt its superiority in the matter.
      A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
      15
      This smells more of vaunt than of loyalty; naught-very naught.
      Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05
      16
      Therefore Percy Mackaye makes Sappho vaunt over the philosopher, Pittacus:
      The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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