Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vaunting manner; boastfully; with vain ostentation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a vaunting manner.
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- adverb So as to
vaunt ; withboastful display.
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- adverb in a boastful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jonas could look at his company now, and vauntingly too.
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I could hardly have supposed that sixteen or seventeen years could have produced such an alteration for the worse in the morals of a place — yes, I say morals; for observance of forms, and avoiding of practices, indifferent in themselves, often supply the place of that regular attention to duties which are so natural, that they seldom are vauntingly exercised, though they are worth all the precepts of the law and the prophets.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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Lagos, now made some grandiose and rhapsodical war speeches and spoke vauntingly of the deeds that he and his warriors meant to perform, while every now and then the younger bloods, eager to flesh their spears, burst out with:
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Wylder; but the Wylder coat in the centre, with the grinning griffins for supporters, and flaunting scrolls all round, and the ominous word ‘resurgam’ underneath, proclaimed itself sadly and vauntingly over the great entrance.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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"Oh, never a bit," says he, gaily, or at any rate with a way as if to carry it off vauntingly.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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And, with a lofty demeanor, thus vauntingly spake to the Captain: 770
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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Grant, vauntingly; "so I don't think he's told anything like that."
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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He comes, too, vauntingly up to us, with his contempt for us and all critics that ever were, or will be; we are all little
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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Pronounce: haughty; vauntingly; pollution; hireling; desolation.
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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MacLachlan, a most extraordinarily vain and pompous little fellow, put his bonnet suddenly on his head, scragged it down vauntingly on one side over the right eye, and stared at John Splendid with a good deal of choler or hurt vanity.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
Logophile77 commented on the word vauntingly
"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"
December 18, 2017