† deˈvaunt, v. Obs.
[app. a. OF. desvanter to vaunt excessively, make one's boast, f. des-, L. dis- + vanter to vaunt, boast.]
To vaunt, boast.
| c 1540 Surr. Northampton Priory in Prance Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot 36 To the most notable slaunder of Christs Holy Evangely, which..wee did ostentate and openly devant to keepe most exactly. |
[1655 quoted by Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 320 with spelling devaunt, mod. ed. advaunte.]