a-vie
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]a-vie (comparative more a-vie, superlative most a-vie)
- (obsolete) In rivalry. [16th–17th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.