Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ostentatious setting forth of what one is or has; boasting; bragging.
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- noun
boasting - adjective
boastful
Etymologies
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Examples
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The prophet here brings him in vaunting, and hectoring; and by his general's letter to Hezekiah, written in his name, vainglory and arrogance seem to have entered very far into the spirit and genius of the man.
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We write deliberately, for we do approach a terrible subject with becoming reverence, whereas the American press appears to take a pride in vaunting that fashion and pleasure cease none of their excesses, even though the cannon can almost be heard in Washington; and the very last of the file of papers that have reached us contains a few flippant leading paragraphs on the war, and, in equally large type, a long and elaborate article upon the management of the Opera-house.
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For an instant Ramsey was all pride for him they exalted; but in the next instant a wave of resentment went through her as if their vaunting were his; as if her pride were his own confessed, colossal vanity; as if the price of his uplift were her belittlement.
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The title of Prefab Sprout's first album in eight years embodies the kind of vaunting egotism one might expect from Bono, Sting or some other mononymic would-be saviour, and one's first instinct is to suppose
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The title of Prefab Sprout's first album in eight years embodies the kind of vaunting egotism one might expect from Bono, Sting or some other mononymic would-be saviour, and one's first instinct is to suppose it's ironically intended.
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But she doesn't want to stand in the way of his own ambition, which is vaunting, I mean, and daunting at the same time.
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But she doesn't want to stand in the way of his own ambition, which is vaunting, I mean, and daunting at the same time.
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But she doesn't want to stand in the way of his own ambition, which is vaunting, I mean, and daunting at the same time.
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There would be no vaunting processional ways, no grand vistas.
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But the album's title track is all spaced-out trash talk, with Weezy vaunting over what sounds like a mutant Run-D. M.C.
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