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Meanings of vauntingly in English

In a boastful manner.

Usage of vauntingly in English
1
This, I set down not vauntingly, but fully realizing what I owe to Heaven.
Lords of the North
2
Pronounce: haughty; vauntingly; pollution; hireling; desolation.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
3
Nevertheless he was more of a good fellow, talked rather vauntingly of his wealth, and affected a patronising manner.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
4
These stories were indignantly denied at the time, although they are not only confessed, but vauntingly and triumphantly affirmed now.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
5
He thought this was a good time to show off, and forcing his way through the crowd, he said, vauntingly:
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
6
What a different appearance did the unfortunate cavaliers present from that of the gallant band that marched so vauntingly out of Antiquera!
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
7
And which you so vauntingly make your excuse for imperilling the peace of the home I ought never to have suffered you to enter.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08
8
'See,' said one of these men of Niuafou to us vauntingly, 'see what has come to pass!
Officer and Man / 1901
9
"Oh, never a bit," says he, gaily, or at any rate with a way as if to carry it off vauntingly.
John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars...
Vauntingly through the time