vaunt
pronunciation
How to pronounce vaunt in British English:
UK [vɔ:nt]
How to pronounce vaunt in American English:
US [vɔnt, vɑnt]
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- Noun:
- extravagant self-praise
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- Verb:
- show off
Word Origin
- vaunt
- vaunt: see vain
- vaunt (v.)
- early 15c., "speak vainly or proudly," from Anglo-French vaunter, Old French vanter "to praise, speak highly of," from Medieval Latin vanitare "to boast," frequentative of Latin vanare "to utter empty words," from vanus "idle, empty" (see vain). Also short for avaunten "to boast" (see vaunt (n.)). Related: Vaunted; vaunting.
- vaunt (n.)
- "boasting utterance," c. 1400, short for avaunt "a boast" (late 14c.), from avaunten "to boast" (c. 1300), from Old French avanter "boast about, boast of, glory in."
Example
- 1. If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me and prove my disgrace to me .
- 2. Even so , if you would vaunt yourselves against me and cast up to me any reproach .
- 3. Charity envy not , charity vaunt not itself , is not puffed up .
- 4. This was not a mere empty vaunt , buta deliberateavowal of his real sentiments .
- 5. And jehovah said to gideon , the people with you are too many for me to deliver midian into their hand ; israel might vaunt himself against me , saying , my own hand has saved me .