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ˈvaunted, ppl. a.
Also 7 vanted.
[f. vaunt v.]
Boasted or bragged of; highly extolled.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 123 Whose meanest Perfection so farre excels all your so long vanted masculine merits. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 251 My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 42, I have seen the vaunted present of porcelain. 1825Scott Talism. xiii, Our cousin Edith must first learn how this vaunted wight hath conducted himself. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) II. i. xvii. 124 Their vaunted purity of blood. 1893G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages 67 How..all our vaunted wisdom in this life is said to be at best but a knowledge in part. |