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  • noun Plural form of vaunting.

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Examples

  • Calvin translates, "his lies are not right (that is, his vauntings are vain because God will not give them effect); they shall not do so" as they project in their minds, for God will set at naught their plans.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • “It is by being just to Individuals, to each other, to the Union, to all; by generous grants of solid Revenue, and by adopting energetic measures to collect that Revenue; and not by complainings, vauntings, or recriminations that these States must expect to establish their Independence.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • “It is by being just to Individuals, to each other, to the Union, to all; by generous grants of solid Revenue, and by adopting energetic measures to collect that Revenue; and not by complainings, vauntings, or recriminations that these States must expect to establish their Independence.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Where is your Argos now? were its vauntings all in vain?

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Where is your Argos now? were its vauntings all in vain?

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Where is now your mouth and your vauntings with respect unto these judgments of God?

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • If, O Dhananjaya, acts in this world succeeded in consequence of vauntings, all persons would then have succeeded in their objects, for who is there that is not competent to brag?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Thy soul overwhelmed with lust, thou indulgest in vauntings from defectiveness of understanding.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Wampum-hair, and he loathed the vauntings of the braves.

    The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

  • Such are the proud vauntings of infidelity, when "iniquity abounds and the love of many waxeth cold."

    Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

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