rare. [f. VAUNTY a.] Boastfulness.
1820. in Jodrell (citing Bailey, app. in error: see VAUNTINGNESS).
1850. Lancet, I. 317/1. The grand Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh appear, by certain movements, to have no objection to immolate them on the altar of their vauntiness and self-sufficiency.
1883. Spurgeon, Treas. David, ii. 2. Peaceful and joyful notwithstanding the proud and boastful vauntiness of his enemies.
192[?]. D. S. Meldrum, Rembrandt’s Paintings, 39. It was the not unnatural vauntiness of a people [the Dutch] whose incalculable service to the world was, as has been said, that they ‘did.’
