vaunt
verb (used with object)
to speak vaingloriously of; boast of.
vaunter
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a word derived from
vaunt.
Example Sentences
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Alas! you know I am no vaunter, I; My scars can witness, dumb although they are, That my report is just and full of truth.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Or shall I rather of Xantippus ask, Who dar'd to undeceive deluded Rome, And prove this vaunter not invincible?
From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Hannah More
A vaunter and a liar are near akin.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Until then I reserve myself for higher duties which are directly laid upon me: it is not permitted to me to leap from the chariot for the sake of wrestling with every loud vaunter.
From Romola by George Eliot
Who would not forgive so cajoling a vaunter?
From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley
