Word Meanings - VAUNTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

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• VAINLY
  In a vain manner; in vain.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• VAUNTFUL
  Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• VAUNT-COURIER
  See SHAK
• BOAST
  bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
• BOASTINGLY
  Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
• VAINGLORIOUS
  Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful. "Arrogant and vainglorious expression." Sir M. Hale. -- Vain`glo"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Vain`glo"ri*ous*ness, n.
• VAUNTINGLY
  In a vaunting manner.
• BOASTER
  One who boasts; a braggart.
• BOASTLESS
  Without boasting or ostentation.
• OSTENTATIOUS
  Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• AVAUNT
  Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."