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vaunter Now arch.|ˈvɔːntə(r)|
Forms: 5–6 vantour, 6 vauntour; 6 Sc. vantar; 6–7 vanter, 7– vaunter.
[ad. OF. vantere, vanteor (AF. vanteour), vanteur (F. vanteur), f. vanter vaunt v. Cf. Prov. vantaire, -ador, It. vantatore.]
A boaster or braggart.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 30 Thai ar..grete vantouris of litill foredede. 1484Caxton Chivalry 65 By surete ben mesprysed many cowardes, vauntours, and many vayne semblaunces. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiv. 104 These frenchmen ar great vantours and hyghe mynded. 1573Tyne in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 29 Tratours,..vantars, luffars of thame selues mair than of God. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 113 Alas you know, I am no Vaunter I. a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 79 A vanter or forth-putter is he, that boastes upon the Exchange, that he hath store of banke mony. 1640Gent Knave in Gr. ii. i. E b, If it prove not correspondent to my word, thinke me an idle vanter. 1716Pope Iliad v. 347 Mistaken vaunter! (Diomed replied;) Thy dart has err'd, and now my spear be tried. 1718Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) VI. 125 A very pert, conceited Person, full of himself, and a mere Vaunter. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son III. 222 De Ruyter's curled lip indicated his contempt of the vaunter. 1848Lytton Harold vii. iii, Now thou shalt see if the Norman is the vaunter thou deemest him. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 146 Such is the unmasking of vaunters, who utter their wishes, as if they were already performances.
b. A boastful assertor, extoller, commender or praiser, of something.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 95 b, By vocation of life a souldiour is counted a great bragger, and a vaunter of hymselfe. 1623Cockeram ii, A Vaunter of his owne vertues, aretalogon. 1700Dryden Homer, Iliad i. 336 Tongue-valiant Hero, Vaunter of thy Might. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 222 They are really no puffers, no vaunters of that which they possess. 1856Mrs. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 1079 The large-mouthed frogs (Those noisy vaunters of their shallow streams). 1866Fortn. Rev. V. 540 The proud vaunter of universal knowledge had been transformed into the humble student of the Bible. |