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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Boastful; vainly ostentatious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. archaic Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

Etymologies

  1. vaunt +‎ -ful (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “When the prima-donna of some vauntful city trills her bird-song above the foot-lights, or the cremona moans out the sigh of night-winds through the forest, artificial townsfolk applaud.”

    Lords of the North

  • “M'Clellan is now safe, under the protection of the gun-boats, which have again proved of the utmost value in the strangest campaign on record, is probably true; but the contrast between the vauntful promises and the almost piteous reference to the last date at which guns were lost is very significant.”

    London, Saturday, July 26, 1862

  • “Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you so often make vauntful mention, can those isles, good Samoa, furnish a valley in all respects equal to Willamilla?”

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

  • “Vivenza were perhaps too much inclined to carry a vauntful crest.”

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

  • “Her screams are answered by the vauntful cries of a hawk; his red comb yet reeking with slaughter.”

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

  • “How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet,”

    Arabian nights. English

  • “I expected such a letter notwithstanding the vauntful prophecies of Old Batchelorship.”

    Letter 161

  • “And after journeying for a long time, we come at last to the confines of the great eternity, in sight of the two courts of the vauntful King of Death -- one to the right, the other to the left, but very far apart from one another as there lay an immense void between them.”

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard

  • “Forgive, fair Thames, the fong of truth that pays To Tago's emprefs-ftream fuperior praifej O'er every vauntful river be it thine To boafl the guardian fhield of laws divine;”

    Internet Archive: Almada hill: an epistle from Lisbon

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