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ˈvauntingly, adv.
[f. prec.]
In a vaunting manner; boastfully, ostentatiously, vaingloriously.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 16 Let me speake truely and not vauntingly. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 36, I heard thee say (and vauntingly thou spak'st it) That thou wer't cause of Noble Glousters death. 1611Cotgr., Piaffeusement, braggingly,..stroutingly, vauntingly. 1636Prynne Unbish. Tim. Ded. (1661) 1 Whether seriously or vauntingly only, let the event determine. 1689T. Plunket Char. Good Commander, etc. 6 Who threatned vauntingly That he..would England Invade. 1798Ellis in Anti-Jacobin 1 Jan. (1852) 28 And dare you vauntingly decide, The fortune we shall meet. 1804E. de Acton Tale without Title II. 100 Should the scrutiny proclaim your innocence, receive not vauntingly the clearing verdict. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 91 Upon which Mr. M‘Dougal would vauntingly lay down Mr. Astor's letter,..a document not to be disputed. |