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† deˈvaunt, v. Obs.
[app. a. OF. desvanter to vaunt excessively, make one's boast, f. des-, L. dis- + vanter to vaunt, boast.]
To vaunt, boast.
c1540Surr. Northampton Priory in Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot 36 To the most notable slaunder of Christs Holy Evangely, which..wee did ostentate and openly devant to keepe most exactly.
[1655quoted by Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 320 with spelling devaunt, mod. ed. advaunte.] |