Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a vaunting manner; boastfully; with vain ostentation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a vaunting manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb So as to vaunt; with boastful display.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a boastful manner

Etymologies

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vaunting +‎ -ly

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  • "And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

    That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

    A home and a country should leave us no more!

    Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

    No refuge could save the hireling and slave

    From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

    December 18, 2017