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vaunt
/vɔːnt/
verb 3noun 2
Collocations
3VERB + VAUNT
answered, back
VAUNT + NOUN
firstlings, menace, rhetoric
PREP.
in, in
Definitions
verb
1
To speak boastfully.
"The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
2
To speak boastfully about.
3
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
noun
1
An instance of vaunting; a boast.
the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
“In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]”
noun
1
The first part.
the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
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"The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din o
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Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
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My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
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the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
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“In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. B
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He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric. He has lifted the only shield I cannot break, the shield of an impenetrable pomposity.
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