| 释义 |
ˈvauntful, a. (and adv.) Now arch.
[f. vaunt n.1 + -ful.]
Boastful.
1590Spenser Muiopot. 54 Yong Clarion with vauntfull lustie hed After his guize did cast abroad to fare. 1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Decay 532 Rabsakeh..Thus braves the Hebrews and upbraids their Prince (Weening, them all with vaunt-full threats to snib). 1838Tait's Mag. V. 707 The English King forthwith entrusted to the vauntful captain his two sons. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 180 His lightnings and his thunders Recking no more—so speaks the vauntful tongue—Than vulgar noonday heat. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVIII. 513 Invincible men call her [i.e. the Armada]:..Well won that vauntful title by the dread, That all around is by her coming spread.
b. As adv. Boastfully. rare—1.
a1814A. Becket Genii i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 499 Albeit the agent only Of him who bears it [a name] vauntful, man's prime enemy. |