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MARCH 18, 2017
vauntingadjective [VAWN-ting, vahn-]
1. having a boastfully proud disposition: a vaunting dictator.
2. marked by boastful pride: a vaunting air of superiority.
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6 words that can ruin your sentenceQUOTESThe time is coming when all
men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not avaunting,
overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural goodness, a
goodness like thine and mine ...
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class
in Divinity College, 1838," Nature; Addresses, and Lectures, 1849
ORIGINVaunting entered English in the late 1500s. It comes from Middle
English vaunten, from Middle French vanter âto boast,â from Late
Latin vÄnitÄre. Vaunting shares its roots with Latin vÄnus
âvain.â
