Now Obs. or arch. Also 5, 7 vaunterye, 6 -erie, 7 vanterie, 7–8 -ery. [a. OF. (also mod.F.) vanterie, f. vanter to vaunt (cf. AVAUNTRY), or in later use f. VAUNT v. + -ERY.]
1. Vaunting, boasting; boastful or vainglorious bearing or show.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 272 b/1. She was not so indyscrete for tenhaunce her self by ouer moche vaunterye.
1592. Conspiracie for Pretended Reform., 5. [He] held it vp triumphantly, and shewed it with great vaunterie and glorie.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 303. This vanterie and glorious boasting of a mans selfe.
1636. in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Commiss., 291/1. In Wentworth’s Declaration … there was much smoke of the vanterie of his own service.
1755. T. H. Croker, Orl. Fur., XXXIII. lxxi. They gave themselves too lofty vantery, That France no knight or Paladin could shew To stand before the weakest of them three.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XXII. 23. She had led The infatuate Moor, in dangerous vauntery, To these aspiring forms. Ibid., XXV. 308. The same [horse] on whom The apostate Orpas in his vauntery Wont to parade the streets of Cordoba.
† 2. A boast, a vaunt. Obs.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 476. They stood much upon promises of future prowesse or vanteries of present valour.
1605. Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia, I. iii. That Touch Of deep Dislike of both their Vaunteries.
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Court, 432. She shewed to take not much pleasure in these his vaunteryes.
