vauntedadj.
/ˈvɔːntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈvɔn(t)əd/, /ˈvɑn(t)əd/ Boasted or bragged of; highly extolled.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boasted of
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1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory To Masculine Rdr. sig. b6v Whose meanest perfection so farre excels all your so long vanted masculine merits.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 251 My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile. View more context for this quotation
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 42 I have seen the vaunted present of porcelain.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xiii, in Tales Crusaders III. 310 Our cousin Edith must first learn how this vaunted wight hath conducted himself.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xvii. 137 Their vaunted purity of blood.
1893 G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages (ed. 7) 67 How..all our vaunted wisdom in this life is said to be at best but a knowledge in part.
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