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vaunted

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vaunt  (vônt, vnt)
v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts
v.tr.
To speak boastfully of; brag about.
v.intr.
To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1.
n.
1. A boastful remark.
2. Speech of extravagant self-praise.

[Middle English vaunten, from Old French vanter, from Late Latin vnitre, to talk frivolously, frequentative of Latin vnre, from vnus, empty; see eu- in Indo-European roots.]

vaunter n.
vaunting·ly adv.
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vaunted
adjective boasted about, flaunted, paraded, shown off, made much of, bragged about, crowed about, exulted in, made a display of, prated about
Translations
vaunted [ˈvɔːntɪd] adj much vaunted → cacareado
vaunted [ˈvɔːntɪd] adj much-vaunted → tant célébré(e)
vaunted [ˈvɔːntɪd] adj much-vaunted → viel gepriesen
vaunted [ˈvɔːntɪd] adj much-vaunted → tanto celebrato/a


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As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing.
Millward's first and only curate - for that gentleman's declining years forced him at last to acknowledge that the duties of his extensive parish were a little too much for those vaunted energies which he was wont to boast over his younger and less active brethren of the cloth.
A great boaster was he withal, and to-day he strutted about on one of these corner stages, and vaunted of his prowess, and offered to crack any man's crown for a shilling.
 
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