Meaning of Vaunt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of vaunting; a boast.
2. The first part.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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! […]””

“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.”

“the vaunt and firstlings of those broils”

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