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Vaunt vs Vant - What's the difference?

vaunt | vant |

As verbs the difference between vaunt and vant

is that vaunt is to speak boastfully while vant is .

As a noun vaunt

is a boast; an instance of vaunting or vaunt can be (obsolete) the first part.

As an adjective vant is

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vaunt

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) vaunter, variant of (etyl) vanter, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To speak boastfully.
  • * 1829 — , chapter XC
    • "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
  • To speak boastfully about.
  • To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
  • * Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
    • Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
  • * Milton
    • My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
    Synonyms
    * (speak boastfully) boast, brag
    Derived terms
    * vaunter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting.
  • * Milton
    • the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
  • * 1904 — , Book II, chapter III
    • He has answered me back, vaunt' for ' vaunt , rhetoric for rhetoric.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . See avant, vanguard.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The first part.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    vant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=John Habberton, title=All He Knew, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant , but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Various, title=Best Short Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1992, date=January 17, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!? }} ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

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