A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1460-1635
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Vant, n. Also: vante, want. [Late ME and e.m.E. vaunte (a1400-50), vaunt (15th c.), vant (1565), aphetic f. Avant n.] a. Boasting, bragging. Also personified. b. A boasting or bragging statement. c. To mak (sum, a, no, one's) vant, to boast, brag.a. c1460 Consail Vys Man 340.
Rus nocht thi-self na loif na lak, Na want na wanglore to thé tak c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xiv 41.
Sic vant of wostouris [M. vantar voustouris] with hairtis in sinfull staturis a1538 Abell 11*a.
Wayngloir or vant suld be vmscheyn 1535 Stewart 31053.
Euerie man hes left [of] vousting vant, Into that tyme beseiking mony sanct … Implorand thame for thair helppersonified a1500 King Hart 947.
To Vant and Voky ȝe beir this rowm slefb. 1626 Garden Worthies 46.
No skaith to Scotts … Can come be these thy windie wants vnwisec. 1513 Doug. x x 9.
Anxurus … Quhilk had maid sum gret vant 1535 Stewart 51635.
Ane freir … of hurdome ay makand vant and ruse 1551 Hamilton Catechism 51.
Quha presumis of thame self ony thing … or makis a vant of thair wisedome or rychteousnes [etc.] a1570-86 Balnaves in Maitland Folio MS 357/53.
Mak thow no vant ouiroft to hant In places darne thair doun 1575 Orkney Oppress. 5.
He alleges himself to be as free lord and heritor of Orkney and Zetland as the king of Scotland is in his own realm, [etc.] … and makes his vante, that in case he be put at by the king's majesty's authority, to give the haill countrys into the king of Denmark's hands 1600-1610 Melvill 154.
And haid bein never so lytle a hinkling of ther pen till haiff born out his course and maid vant of for his creadit at court 1635 Justiciary Cases I 236.
Quhilk scandallous … lybell … was … disperset in the handis of dyuerse our subjectis … the said Mr. William Haig glorying in his said devillische homour hes maid vant that he was the penner thairof
