adv. [f. prec.] In a vaunting manner; boastfully, ostentatiously, vaingloriously.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 16. Let me speake truely and not vauntingly.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., IV. i. 36. I heard thee say (and vauntingly thou spak’st it) That thou wer’t cause of Noble Glousters death.
1611. Cotgr., Piaffeusement, braggingly,… stroutingly, vauntingly.
1636. Prynne, Unbish. Tim., Ded. (1661), 1. Whether seriously or vauntingly only, let the event determine.
1689. T. Plunket, Char. Good Commander, etc., 6. Who threatned vauntingly That he … would England Invade.
1798. Ellis, in Anti-Jacobin, 1 Jan. (1852), 28. And dare you vauntingly decide, The fortune we shall meet.
1804. Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, II. 100. Should the scrutiny proclaim your innocence, receive not vauntingly the clearing verdict.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, I. 91. Upon which Mr. M‘Dougal would vauntingly lay down Mr. Astor’s letter,… a document not to be disputed.
