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ˈvauntery Now Obs. or arch.
Also 5, 7 vaunterye, 6 -erie, 7 vanterie, 7–8 -ery.
[a. OF. (also mod.F.) vanterie, f. vanter to vaunt (cf. avauntry), or in later use f. vaunt v. + -ery.]
1. Vaunting, boasting; boastful or vainglorious bearing or show.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 272 b/1 She was not so indyscrete for tenhaunce her self by ouer moche vaunterye. 1592Conspiracie for Pretended Reform. 5 [He] held it vp triumphantly, and shewed it with great vaunterie and glorie. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 303 This vanterie and glorious boasting of a mans selfe. 1636in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Commiss. 291/1 In Wentworth's Declaration..there was much smoke of the vanterie of his own service. 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxxiii. lxxi, They gave them⁓selves too lofty vantery, That France no knight or Paladin could shew To stand before the weakest of them three. 1814Southey Roderick xxii. 23 She had led The infatuate Moor, in dangerous vauntery, To these aspiring forms. Ibid. xxv. 308 The same [horse] on whom The apostate Orpas in his vauntery Wont to parade the streets of Cordoba.
†2. A boast, a vaunt. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 476 They stood much upon promises of future prowesse or vanteries of present valour. 1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia i. iii, That Touch Of deep Dislike of both their Vaunteries. 1626T. H[awkins] tr. Caussin's Holy Court 432 She shewed to take not much pleasure in these his vaunteryes. |