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VAUNCIUa.
Par. Pr. 1636 5ef hyt (/>. contrition] be gret, 5eue luyle
penautice. ^^f hyt be luyte, i>ow moste hyt vaunce [t'.r.
haunce]. 1489 Caxton Faytes o/A. l. xviii. 54 The wyse
captayne ought not to putte nor vaunce forth hym and hys
men lyghtly to a bataylle, xs8a Stanvhl'rst .^iteis{Arh.)
85 Al thogh.. winds vaunce fully thy sayls with prosperus
huffing. 1594 R. Carew Tassa (1881) 21 This hardie speech
..Gaue ech one care, and vaunst his courage hie. i6t6
J. Lane Contn. Sqr^s T, ix. 379 Which embleams hee bid
\aunce, for foes to reede of mercie, iustice, death, how hee
decreed.
b. rejl. c 1489 Caxton' St}Hnes 0/ Aynion xiv. 350 He
vaunced hym selfe forthe, and caught the kynge wylh bothe
hysarmes. ^ Blanchardyn xxiii. 77 As blanchardyn. .perceyued
t^" noble pucelie, he dyde vaunce him self toward
her. a 1548 Hall Chron. (1805) 616 A uicture of an armed
Knight on a courser barded Vauncyng himself upon that hill.
1573 Tl'sser Hush. (1878J 207 But marke the chance, my
self to vance, By friendships lot, to Paules I got. 1587
TuRBKRV. Tri^f. Tales (1837) 41 They vaunst themselves,
and stood mee bolt upright.
C. intr. 1544 BErHA.M Precepts War i, cxcvii. I vj b, The
hoste vauncyng towarde battayl, the capltayne ought to
speake these wordes. 1595 Spesser F. Q. iv. iv. 17 Sir
Satyrane..vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights.
Hence t Vau'noing vbl. sb. 06s.
c\^/M Apol. Loll. 56 A how bitter luf and vauncing [L.
promi}tiing. 1416 AUDELAV Poems (Percy Soc.) 33 Clerkys that
hatl cunnyng, Schuld have monys soule in kepyng, Bot that
mai get no vaunsyng Without symony.
Vauaoe-roof, variant of Vavce-roof.
VaUQchaoe, variant of Vanchase Obs.
t Vanneant. Obs.-^ [a. older F. vau-, vaiitneant,
f. vatit 3rd pers. sing. pres. of valoir to be
worth + neant nothing.] A good-for-nothing person.
i6ji T. WiLLiAMsox tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 109 We
can doe no other then blame these vau-neantes, vaine &
vitious persons.
Vaunplate, obs. form of Vamplate.
Vaunt (vg:it, U.S. vaiit), sb.\ Now rhet. or
arch. Also 5-6 vaunte, 6-7 vant. [Aphetic f.
AvADNT shy Cf. Vaunt f.]
1. Boasting, bragging ; boastful or vainglorious
language or utterance; arrogant assertion or
bearing.
a 1400-50 AlexaniieriBSo Bot (>of (xju )x victor a vaile na
vaunte sail arise. 14 . Sir Beues (S.) 3963 + 87 Kyng Vuor !
swoor with grete vaunt Be hys god Tirmegaunt. 1500-10 i
DusBAR Poems xiv. 41 Sic vant of wostouris with hairtis in
smfull slaturis 1577 B. GooGE Heresbach's Husb. 1. (rj86) i
4 For my part (without vaunt be it spoken,) I haue seruice
euery day at certaine appointed houres. I59i5 Spinser F. Q. '
(*) a 1533 Ld. Berners HuonXn. 177 Make no vaunt of
ony th>-nge without thou canst do it in dede, for in euery
thynee I wyll proue thee. 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke
5t Many make vauntes and crakes of hauing visions of
Aungels, whiche they yet neuer sawe. 1687 MitcE Gt. Fr.
Diet. II. S.V., I'o make a vaunt of a Thing, to boast of it.
(c) 1586 G. Whitnev Embl. 228 Then, let him not make
vaunt of his desert. i8at men wende
ich were..Riche,..Bostynge and Braggynge wyth meny
bolde ot>es, Auauntyng vp-on [llchester MS. Vtuntyng vp]
my veine glorie for eny vndernymynge. ^1440 Promp.
Parv. 508/1 Vaunton, or a.vaunton or booston, jacto,
osteitto. 1515 Barclay Egloges iv. (i 570) C vj/i They laude
VI. iv. 29 A great Gyant .Whom their verses,
he did
they boast,
ouerthrow.
they vaunt, they iel.
..\nd in
1570 Levins
three baitailes did so deadly daunt, That
Manip.
he dare
25 To vaunt, glorinri.
not returne
1579 Lvlv Euphues (Arb.)
for all his daily vaunt. 1838 Prescott 198 But I will not vaunt, before the victorie.
J^o-rf. '
* /j. 11. i. (1846) 1603 J.
1 1. 256 With all the vaunt and insolent port of a conqueror.
tersonified. a 1510 IJouglas A'. Hart u. 523 To Vant and
Voky 3e beir this rowm slef. I
trans/. 155. T. Wilsos R)ut. (158J) 14 (Certain orators] 1
would so muche saie as their witte would giue, not weighyng
the state of the cause, but mindyng the vaunt of their braine. ;
2. To make {one's or a) vaunt, to boast or brag. !
Also const, o/' something. Now rare.
\
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(1) 1S30 Palsgr. 619/2 He made his vaunte that hewolde
beate me. 1555 Eden Decades ( Arb.) 147 The christians .
whom thou haste .. threated to drawe by the heare of their
heades to the nexte ryuer, .. as thou haste often tymes made
thy vaunte emonge thy naked slaues. 1573 G. Harvey
Letter-bk (Camden) 5, [I] am an inch beneath him, as he \
ons made his vaunt. I
Davies
(Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 31/1 For Southward,
men are cruell, moody, madd. Hot blacke, leane,
leapers, lustfuU, vsd to vant. 1630 R. fohnson's Kingd. H
Comnnv. 476 All this (as the drunkard will vaunt,) for the
honour of. .the Prince. 1699 Temple Hist. Eng. 583 He
talk'd little, never vaunted, ooserv'd much, was very secret.
1700 Drvden Oviifs Met. xv. ^42 In lime be vaunts among
his youthful Peers, Strongbon d, and strung with Nerves, in
Eride of Years. 1791 Cowper Iliad x\. 462 Transported from
is ambush forth he leap'd With a loud laugh, and, vaunting,
thus exclaim'd: Oh shaft well shot ! it galls thee. 1803
Eugenia de \csoh Nuns ofDesert 1. 145 Sometimes vowing
nevcr.ceasing affection, then vaunting in bis power, threaten,
ing revenge for her disdainful repulsion of ofh;rs. i8s6 .-Vndh.
ScoTT Poems 97 He could vaunting tell, 'I'hat he wad face
the ghaist.
b. Const, ^(or \ on).
«54*-77 VicARY Anat. (1888) i. 17 A cunning and skilful
Chirurgion neede neuer vaunt of his dooings. 1584-7
Greene Moraitdo Wks. (Grosart) III. 67 'They thinke no
man so able to atchiue any enterprises as he, vanting of his
victories. 1605 Camden Rem., Efigr. 12 The vaniiie of them
which vaunt of their auncient nobility. 1634 W. Tirwhvt
tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I) 394 He. .blusheth not at Christian
venues, nor vanteth of moral ones. 1663 Gerbier Counsel ^^
The Hollanders.. Vant of iheir scarcity of iheeves. 1718 Pope
Hind XIII. 82 Here Hector. .Vaunts of his gods, and calls
high Jove his sire. 179J Boswell Johnson an. 1775, He
did not vaunt of his new dignity, but I understood he was
highly pleased with it. 180a Mrs. E. Parsons Myst. Visit
IV._53 who, like the proud Pharisee, .. proudly vaunt on
their own virtue.s. x8i8 Byron Juan 1. i. Of such as these I
should not care to vaunt. i8ai Joanna Baillie Metr. Leg.,
Wallace v, The meanest drudge will sometimes vaunt Of
independent sires.
O. With other preps.
1549 CoVERDALE, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Peter II. 19 They are
rather filthe and spottes, who in their filthie glotonous
bankettings vaunt against you, as though you were madde
mcnne. 1591 Spenser Virg. Gnat 559 And all that vaunts
in worldly vanitie Shall fall thtough fortunes mutabilitie.
c 1600 Shaks. Sonn. xv. When I perceiue that men as plants
increase, Cheared and checkt euen by the selfe.same skie
Vaunt in their youthfull sap, at height decrease. 1605
ij/ Part leroiiimo III. ii. (Stage direction), Andrea slain,
and Prince Balthezer vanting on him. i6a8 Prynne Lcrvelockes
40 Who vaunts, and Iriumphes, in the length and
largenes.se of his IxKke. 1795 Southev Joan o/A re vil. 86
So erst from earth Antxus vaunting in his giant bulk. When
trraspt by force Herculean, down he fell Vanquish'd. 1805
El'genia de Acton Nuns of Desert II. 254 She vaunted
over the ' humble and meek .
td. With it. k\%o spec, (see quot. 1611). Obs.
1611 Florio, Chiestare,..lo vant it or vie it in gaming.
1614 W. Browne Sheph. Pipe 1. i, Hearke, how yonder
Thrustle chants it. And her mate as proudly vants it.
2. With clause as object, usu. introduced hy that.
5*3 I'D- Berners Froiss. I. ccccxxxviii. 311/2 He had
before sayd and vaunted, howe & the kynge came to rejse
the siege before Ipre, he wolde abyde & fight with hym. \
VAUNT-COUKIEB.
156a WINJET Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 37 Apollinaris in a manere
crakLS and waintis that he consentis in deid to the vnilie of
J„„ ";"l ^- »¥'3 S«*KS. 2 Hen. VI, ,. iii. 87 She vaunted
mongst her Minions t'other day. The very trayne of her
worst wearing Gowne, Was better worili then all mv
bathers Lands. i6ot Holland Pliny I. 171 All others
may vaunt verily, that they have vanquished men: but
Sergius may boast, that he bath conquered. .Fortune her
selfe. 1653 H. CoGAN tr. Pinto's Trav. viii. 25 Prester.
^^^ '*'' Abissins vaunt
'o '.., u*"?^^
they are descended.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania zjfinote. The emperor
..vaunting that, with his good sword,, .he could cut a man
111 twain. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Si. (1873) II. 1. i.
Attila
33
vaunted that the grass never grew again after his
horse s hoof.
+ 3. re^. To boast, extol, glorify, or praise (oneself).
Usu. const. /tfr, «/; or j«. Obs.
a I4°^S° Alexander 2713 For vertu ne no victori ne vant
l.oght (ji.selfe. a 1500 in Ratis Raving, etc. 81 Thai rus
thaim nocht of done foly,. .Na wantiis thaim nocht of thar
gud deid. 1614 WoTTON Arch. 55 Apelles (did excel] in
Invention and Grace, whereof he doth himself most vaunt.
i8as ScOTT Talism. iii. Thou shouldst know, ere thou
v.nuntest thyself, that one steel glove can crush a whole handful
of hornets. 1876 Swinburne Errchtkeus 1180 Who may
vaunt him as we may in death though he die for the land »
'''"'y^ 1576 Gascoigne Kenilworlh Castle Wks. 1910 II.
119 The Countrey craves consent, your venues vaunt them,
selfe. c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon 111. i. Fore the morning
sun Shall vaunt him thrice ouer the loftie east.
t b. With infinitive or object clause. Also with
pr ( =as), and double accusative. Obs.
1513 Douglas /Eneid i. ix. 85 Full oft him .self extoll and
vant he wald Of Troiane bluide to be descend of aid isSa
W1N3F.T Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 27 Donatistis..quha craikis and
wanetis thame be the auctorilie of that counsel to baptize
agane. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxviii.
146 b. Shooting.., whereoflbey do vaunt themseluestohaue
been the first inuentors. l6as Bacon Ess., Friendship (Arb.)
169 Pompey vaunted H imselfe for Sylla's Ouermatch. 1816
Scott Bl. Dmar/x\\, Thou vauntest thyself a philosopher?
t c. To bear (oneself proudly ) or vaingloriously.
1570-6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 236 The Church
that yet vaunteth it selfe with two steeples. 1577 Test, of
12 Patr. (1604) 52 Ve shall be swoln with wickedness in
the priesthood,, .not only vaunting and boasting your selves
against men, but also being puffed and swoln up with pride
against the commandments of God. 1611 Bible i Cor. xiii.
4 Charitie enuieth not : charitie vaunteth not it .selfe, is not
puffed vp. i6«3 S. Patrick Parai. Pilgr. xi. (1687) 67
Hath he not crowned himself with greater glory in notvaunting
himself in those Trophies?
+ 4. /ra/w. To proclaim or display proudly. Obs.
1590 Spenser F. Q. 111. ii. 16 Tell me.. What shape, wh.-it
shield,. .And what so else his person most may vaunt?
159a Kyd Sp. Trag. i. 11. 27 There met our armies in their
proud aray : Both furnisht well, both full of hope and feare,
. . Both vaunting sundry colours of deuice.
6. To boast of (something) ; to commend or
praise in a vainglorious manner.
11591 Greene Alphonsus n. i, And then I meane 10
vaunt our victorie. C1696 Prior Partial Fame 7 He
vaunts His Conquest, She conceals Her Shame. 1718 Free-
. thinker No. 65. 68 A Keeper of Bears may as well vaunt
his Policy, as a Ruler of Slaves. 1761-71 H. Walpole
Vertiie'sAnecd. Paint. ( 786) I. Pref. 1 1 1 This country, which
does not always err in vaunting its own productions. i8ai
^cxtTt Kenitw. xxxvii, He really felt the ascendency which
he vaunted. 1850 Merivai.e Rom. Rcf. viii. (1865) I. 226
The Roman matron was taught indeed to vaunt her ignorance
as a virtue. 1878 Emerson IMisc. Papers, Sov. Ethics
Wks. (Bohn) III. 372 In ignorant ages it was common to
vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct
of other animals.
t b. To Utter boastingly. Obs.-'^
'633 P- Fletcher Poet. Misc. 87 'Ihey cut my heart, they
vant that bitter word, Where is thy trust? where is thy
hope?
t Vaunt, int. Obs. rare. [Aphetic form of
AvAUNT int., etc.] Avaunt, away, be off !
1598 Mucedorus Induct. 13 Vaunt, churlish curre, . . Blush,
monster, blush, and post away with shame. 1608 H. Clap-
ham Errour Right Hand 50 Then, vaunt Dogge I damn'd
of thine owne conscience.
Vaunt-, /)r/ir, an AF. variant of Vant-. (For
examples see Vaunt-chase, -coukier, etc.)
Vauntage. rare-^. [f. Vaunt ji^.l] Boasting,
vaunting.
1818M1LMAN Samor in. 374 Frisian and Scandinavian,
Cimbrian rich In ancient vauntage of his sires, who clomb
The Alpine snows, and shook free Rome with dread,
Vauntbrace, -bras(8e, varr. and obs. forms of
Vantbrace.
t Vaunt-chase. Obs. rare. [prob. ad. AF.
*vauntchcue : see Vaunt-.] = Vanchase. (.See
also quot. 1688.)
1576 TuRBERV. Ventrie 113' There he goeth, thats he, . . 10
him, to him,' naming the hound that goth away with the
vautchace(xit:]and hallowing the rest vnto him. 1688 Holme
Armoury in. 189/1 Vaunt.chase is the Hound that leadetb
the rest in the Chase.
Vaunt-COUrier(vg-nt-, vantikOsiriaj). Forms;
a. 6 vantcorrour, -currour, -ouror, 6-8 -ourror,
7 -curreur, -otirrer ; 6 vauntcurrour, 7 -curror,
6-7 vauntcurrer. /3. 6 vaunte-, 6-7 vauntourrier,
7 -currier, 6-7 vantourrier, 7 -ourier.
7. 7 vantcourier, vauntoourrier, 7, 9 vauntcourier.
8. 7 vauntoourer, vantoourrer. t.
erron. 7 vaunt carrier, [ad. F. avant-coureur
AvANT-coURiER,with assimilation to formsin Vant-,
Vaunt-, and to Coueieb. Cf. Van-coukier.]
+ 1. One of the advance-guard of an .iriny or body
9-a