vauntfuladj.adv.
Now archaic.
a. Boastful.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful
boastyc1300
bragc1315
boastfulc1380
great-moutheda1425
boggishc1440
avauntinga1513
windy1513
blazing1549
thrasonical1564
vauntful1590
vousty1596
braggadocian1599
self-boasting1599
braggart1604
braggartly?1611
braggadocio1615
braggeda1616
ampullous1622
rodomontado1645
vapouring1649
thrasonic1657
rodomontade1660
flounder-mouthed1663
fanfaron1670
vaunty1724
boastivea1763
Falstaffian1809
bounceable1831
jactant1839
braggadocious1853
blow-hard1855
loud-mouthed1867
flannel-mouthed1884
bull-mouthed1896
poppy-show1896
Tartarin1903
1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 54 Yong Clarion with vauntfull lustie hed After his guize did cast abroad to fare.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 128 Rabsakeh..Thus braves the Hebrues and vpbraids their Prince (Weening, them all with vaunt-full Threats to snib).
1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 5 707 The English King forthwith entrusted to the vauntful captain his two sons.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 180 His lightnings and his thunders Recking no more—so speaks the vauntful tongue—Than vulgar noonday heat.
1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 148 513 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adverb]
braga1375
boastfullyc1430
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
boastingly1552
bragginglya1569
thrasonically1591
vauntingly1593
braggadocio-like1600
vapouringly1653
bouncinglya1677
vauntful1814
braggart-like1826
1814 A. Becket Genii i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre I. 499 Albeit the agent only Of him who bears it [a name] vauntful, man's prime enemy.
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