ppl. a. Also 7 vanted. [f. VAUNT v.] Boasted or bragged of; highly extolled.
1635. A. Stafford, Fem. Glory (1869), 123. Whose meanest Perfection so farre excels all your so long vanted masculine merits.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 251. My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, II. 42. I have seen the vaunted present of porcelain.
1825. Scott, Talism., xiii. Our cousin Edith must first learn how this vaunted wight hath conducted himself.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is. (1846), II. I. xvii. 124. Their vaunted purity of blood.
1884. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages, 67. Shows how rightly all our vaunted wisdom in this life is said to be at best but a knowledge in part.
