Definition of "vauntingly" []

• So as to vaunt; with boastful display. (adverb)

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• "Jonas could look at his company now, and vauntingly too."
• "I could hardly have supposed that sixteen or seventeen years could have produced such an alteration for the worse in the morals of a place — yes, I say morals; for observance of forms, and avoiding of practices, indifferent in themselves, often supply the place of that regular attention to duties which are so natural, that they seldom are vauntingly exercised, though they are worth all the precepts of the law and the prophets."
• "Wylder; but the Wylder coat in the centre, with the grinning griffins for supporters, and flaunting scrolls all round, and the ominous word ‘resurgam’ underneath, proclaimed itself sadly and vauntingly over the great entrance."