Obs. [f. VAUNTING vbl. sb.] Boastfulness.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Ostentatiousness, vauntingness, bragging, shewiness.
1843. [Henry Wood], Change for the American Notes, Contents p. xi. American Vauntingness.
1859. W. B. Stevens, Hist. Georgia, II. 224. There was a vauntingness at times in the language of d’Estaing, which rendered it too haughty to be brave.
