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▪ I. vaunt, n.1 Now rhet. or arch.
(vɔːnt, U.S. vɑːnt)
Also 5–6 vaunte, 6–7 vant.
[Aphetic f. avaunt n.1 Cf. vaunt v.]
1. Boasting, bragging; boastful or vainglorious language or utterance; arrogant assertion or bearing.
a1400–50Alexander 1880 Bot þof þou þe victor a-vaile na vaunte sall arise. 14..Sir Beues (S.) 3963 + 87 Kyng Yuor swoor with grete vaunt Be hys god Tirmegaunt. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 41 Sic vant of wostouris with hairtis in sinfull staturis. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 4 For my part (without vaunt be it spoken,) I haue seruice euery day at certaine appointed houres. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iv. 29 A great Gyant..Whom he did ouerthrow..And in three battailes did so deadly daunt, That he dare not returne for all his daily vaunt. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. ii. i. (1846) II. 256 With all the vaunt and insolent port of a conqueror.
personified.a1510Douglas K. Hart ii. 523 To Vant and Voky ȝe beir this rowm slef.
transf.1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 14 [Certain orators] would so muche saie as their witte would giue, not weighyng the state of the cause, but mindyng the vaunt of their braine.
2. to make (one's or a) vaunt, to boast or brag. Also const. of something. Now rare.
(a)1530Palsgr. 619/2 He made his vaunte that he wolde beate me. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 147 The christians..whom thou haste..threated to drawe by the heare of their heades to the nexte ryuer,..as thou haste often tymes made thy vaunte emonge thy naked slaues. 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 5, [I] am an inch beneath him, as he ons made his vaunt.
(b)a1533Ld. Berners Huon lii. 177 Make no vaunt of ony thynge without thou canst do it in dede, for in euery thynge I wyll proue thee. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke 51 Many make vauntes and crakes of hauing visions of Aungels, whiche they yet neuer sawe. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii. s.v., To make a vaunt of a Thing, to boast of it.
(c)1586G. Whitney Embl. 228 Then, let him not make vaunt of his desert. 1860Motley Netherl. iv. (1868) I. 114 He stoutly denied the facts of which the leaguers made vaunt.
3. A boasting assertion, speech, or statement; a boast or brag.
1597Deloney Gentle Craft Wks. (1912) 186 Tom Drums vants, and his rare intertainment at Mistris Farmers house. 1625Bacon Ess., Vain-Glory (Arb.) 463 They that are Glorious, must needs be Factious... They must needs be Violent, to make good their owne Vaunts. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 84 The spirits beneath, whom I seduc'd With other promises and other vaunts Then to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. 1694Dryden Love Tri. i. i, The haughty Captive, who had made his Vaunts To lay their Dwellings level. 1716Pope Iliad v. 580 Now, now thy country calls her wonted friends, And the proud vaunt in just derision ends. a1735G. Granville Unnat. Flights Poetry 51 Such vaunts as his who can with patience read? 1798Coleridge Fears in Solitude 198 May the vaunts And menace of the vengeful enemy Pass like the gust. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages ix. ii. (1819) III. 375 A writer of the thirteenth [century] asserts that all the world was clothed from English wool wrought in Flanders. This indeed is an exaggerated vaunt. 1855Prescott Philip II, i. i, Spain then first realized the magnificent vaunt,..that the sun never set within the borders of her dominions. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 58 For a man to boast of wisdom when his heart is full of bitter emulation and party spirit is a lying vaunt.
b. Const. of.
1565Jewel Reply Harding (1611) 73 But that the same humanitie of Christ is in the Sacrament, in such grosse sort, as is supposed by our Aduersaries, notwithstanding many bold vants thereof made, yet was it hitherto neuer prooued. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 73 Telling her how he was a King,..what power he had to aduance her, with many other proude vaunts of his wealth. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 50 [He] by reputing of his high discent..And such high vaunts of his Nobilitie, Did [etc.]. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 80 Of which his vain pretension, and his freqent vaunts thereof being by letters minded and admonished, he returns this Answer. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes (ed. 12) 217 They introduce him as uttering the most extravagant vaunts of his power and ambitious designs. 1826Scott Rev. Kemble's Life, Biogr. (1849) 200 Assassins [were] approaching him..in the very midst of his triumphant vaunt of his repeated victories.
†c. (See quot. and cf. brag n.1 6.) Obs.—0
1598Florio, Chiesta,..a vaunt or vye in gaming.
4. A cause or subject of boasting. rare.
1791Cowper Iliad ii. 188 Is it thus at last That the Achaians..Shall seek again their country, leaving here, To be the vaunt of Ilium and her King, Helen of Argos?
▪ II. † vaunt, n.2 Obs.
Also 7 vant.
[Independent use of the prefix vant-, vaunt-. Cf. F. avant fore part.]
1. A front part or portion. rare.
In the first quot. with reference to the face.
1589? Lyly Pappe w. Hatchet C iiij b, Take awaie this beard, and giue mee a pikede vaunt, Martin sweares by his ten bones. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Prol. 27 Our Play Leapes ore the vaunt and firstlings of those broyles, Beginning in the middle.
2. The van of an army.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. vi. 9 Go charge Agrippa, Plant those that haue reuolted in the Vant. 1623Bingham Xenophon 59 Cherisophus led the Vaunt,..Xenophon and the Reare-Commanders brought vp the Reare. 1624Donne Devot. (ed. 2) 380 When an Army marches, the vaunt may lodge to night, where the Reare comes not till to morrow.
▪ III. † vaunt, n.3 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
A kind of fruit pie.
1508–13W. de Worde Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 270 Fruyter vaunte, with a subtylte, two potages, blaunche manger, and gelly. 1594Gd. Huswifes Handmaid Kitchin 38 b, To make a Vaunt. Take marrow of Beefe [etc.]. Ibid. 39 Cut it in faire slices,..as long as your Vaunt is.
▪ IV. vaunt, v. Now rhet. or arch.
(vɔːnt, U.S. vɑːnt)
Also 5–7 vant, 6 vaunte, 6 Sc. wantt-, wanet-, 6–7 vante.
[a. OF. (also mod.F.) vanter, = It. and med.L. vantare:—pop.L. *vānitāre: cf. avaunt v.1]
1. intr. To boast or brag; to use boastful, bragging, or vainglorious language.
Fairly common c 1600; now rare or Obs.
14..Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 35 Me wilnynge þat men wende ich were..Riche,..Bostynge and Braggynge wyth meny bolde oþes, Auauntyng vp-on [Ilchester MS. Vauntyng vp] my veine glorie for eny vndernymynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 508/1 Vaunton, or a-vaunton or booston, jacto, ostento. 1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C vj/1 They laude their verses, they boast, they vaunt, they iet. 1570Levins Manip. 25 To vaunt, gloriari. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 198 But I will not vaunt, before the victorie. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 31/1 For Southward, men are cruell, moody, madd, Hot blacke, leane, leapers, lustfull, vsd to vant. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 476 All this (as the drunkard will vaunt,) for the honour of..the Prince. 1699Temple Hist. Eng. 583 He talk'd little, never vaunted, observ'd much, was very secret. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xv. 342 In time he vaunts among his Youthful Peers, Strong-bon'd, and strung with Nerves, in pride of Years. 1791Cowper Iliad xi. 462 Transported from his ambush forth he leap'd With a loud laugh, and, vaunting, thus exclaim'd: Oh shaft well shot! it galls thee. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 145 Sometimes vowing never-ceasing affection, then vaunting in his power, threatening revenge for her disdainful repulsion of offers. 1826Andr. Scott Poems 97 He could vaunting tell, That he wad face the ghaist.
b. Const. of (or † on).
1548–77Vicary Anat. (1888) i. 17 A cunning and skilful Chirurgion neede neuer vaunt of his dooings. 1584–7Greene Morando Wks. (Grosart) III. 67 They thinke no man so able to atchiue any enterprises as he, vanting of his victories. 1605Camden Rem., Epigr. 12 The vanitie of them which vaunt of their auncient nobility. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I) 394 He..blusheth not at Christian vertues, nor vanteth of moral ones. 1663Gerbier Counsel 93 The Hollanders..Vant of their scarcity of theeves. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 82 Here Hector..Vaunts of his gods, and calls high Jove his sire. 1792Boswell Johnson an. 1775, He did not vaunt of his new dignity, but I understood he was highly pleased with it. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit IV. 53 Who, like the proud Pharisee,..proudly vaunt on their own virtues. 1818Byron Juan i. i, Of such as these I should not care to vaunt. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace v, The meanest drudge will sometimes vaunt Of independent sires.
c. With other preps.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Peter II. 19 They are rather filthe and spottes, who in their filthie glotonous bankettings vaunt against you, as though you were madde menne. 1591Spenser Virg. Gnat 559 And all that vaunts in worldly vanitie Shall fall through fortunes mutabilitie. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xv, When I perceiue that men as plants increase, Cheared and checkt euen by the selfe-same skie: Vaunt in their youthfull sap, at height decrease. 16051st Part Ieronimo iii. ii. (Stage direction), Andrea slain, and Prince Balthezer vanting on him. 1628Prynne Lovelockes 40 Who vaunts, and triumphes, in the length and largenesse of his Locke. 1795Southey Joan of Arc vii. 86 So erst from earth Antæus vaunting in his giant bulk, When graspt by force Herculean, down he fell Vanquish'd. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert II. 254 She vaunted over the ‘humble and meek’.
†d. With it. Also spec. (see quot. 1611). Obs.
1611Florio, Chiestare,..to vant it or vie it in gaming. 1614W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. i, Hearke, how yonder Thrustle chants it, And her mate as proudly vants it.
2. With clause as object, usu. introduced by that.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxxxviii. 311/2 He had before sayd and vaunted, howe & the kynge came to reyse the siege before Ipre, he wolde abyde & fight with hym. 1562Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 37 Apollinaris in a manere crakis and waintis that he consentis in deid to the vnitie of the Trinitie. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. iii. 87 She vaunted 'mongst her Minions t'other day, The very trayne of her worst wearing Gowne, Was better worth then all my Fathers Lands. 1601Holland Pliny I. 171 All others may vaunt verily, that they have vanquished men: but Sergius may boast, that he hath conquered..Fortune her selfe. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. viii. 25 Prester-John, of whose race the Abissins vaunt they are descended. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 136 note, The emperor..vaunting that, with his good sword,..he could cut a man in twain. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. i. 33 Attila vaunted that the grass never grew again after his horse's hoof.
†3. refl. To boast, extol, glorify, or praise (oneself). Usu. const. for, of, or in. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 2713 For vertu ne no victori ne vant noght þi-selfe. a1500in Ratis Raving, etc. 81 Thai rus thaim nocht of done foly,..Na wanttis thaim nocht of thar gud deid. 1624Wotton Arch. 55 Apelles [did excel] in Invention and Grace, whereof he doth himself most vaunt. 1825Scott Talism. iii, Thou shouldst know, ere thou vauntest thyself, that one steel glove can crush a whole handful of hornets. 1876Swinburne Erechtheus 1180 Who may vaunt him as we may in death though he die for the land?
transf.1576Gascoigne Kenilworth Castle Wks. 1910 II. 119 The Countrey craves consent, your vertues vaunt them⁓selfe. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon iii. i, Fore the morning sun Shall vaunt him thrice ouer the loftie east.
†b. With infinitive or object clause. Also with for (= as), and double accusative. Obs.
1513Douglas æneid i. ix. 85 Full oft him self extoll and vant he wald Of Troiane bluide to be descend of ald. 1562Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 27 Donatistis..quha craikis and wanetis thame be the auctoritie of that counsel to baptize agane. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxviii. 146 b, Shooting.., whereof they do vaunt themselues to haue been the first inuentors. 1625Bacon Ess., Friendship (Arb.) 169 Pompey vaunted Himselfe for Sylla's Ouermatch. 1810Scott Bl. Dwarf xvi, Thou vauntest thyself a philosopher?
†c. To bear (oneself) proudly or vaingloriously.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 236 The Church that yet vaunteth it selfe with two steeples. 1577Test. of 12 Patr. (1604) 52 Ye shall be swoln with wickedness in the priesthood,..not only vaunting and boasting your selves against men, but also being puffed and swoln up with pride against the commandments of God. 1611Bible 1 Cor. xiii. 4 Charitie enuieth not: charitie vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed vp. 1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xi. (1687) 67 Hath he not crowned himself with greater glory in not vaunting himself in those Trophies?
†4. trans. To proclaim or display proudly. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 16 Tell me..What shape, what shield,..And what so else his person most may vaunt? 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. i. ii. 27 There met our armies in their proud aray: Both furnisht well, both full of hope and feare,..Both vaunting sundry colours of deuice.
5. To boast of (something); to commend or praise in a vainglorious manner.
a1592Greene Alphonsus ii. i, And then I meane to vaunt our victorie. c1696Prior Partial Fame 7 He vaunts His Conquest, She conceals Her Shame. 1718Free-thinker No. 65. 68 A Keeper of Bears may as well vaunt his Policy, as a Ruler of Slaves. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. Pref. 11 This country, which does not always err in vaunting its own productions. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxvii, He really felt the ascendency which he vaunted. 1850Merivale Rom. Rep. viii. (1865) I. 226 The Roman matron was taught indeed to vaunt her ignorance as a virtue. 1878Emerson Misc. Papers, Sov. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) III. 372 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals.
†b. To utter boastingly. Obs.—1
1633P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 87 They cut my heart, they vant that bitter word, Where is thy trust? where is thy hope?
▪ V. † vaunt, int. Obs. rare.
[Aphetic form of avaunt int., etc.]
Avaunt, away, be off!
1598Mucedorus Induct. 13 Vaunt, churlish curre,..Blush, monster, blush, and post away with shame. 1608H. Clapham Errour Right Hand 50 Then, vaunt Dogge! damn'd of thine owne conscience. |