avaunt
English
Etymology
First used 1275–1325; (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French avant (“to the front”).
Interjection
avaunt
- (archaic) Begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.
Noun
avaunt (plural avaunts)
Verb
avaunt (third-person singular simple present avaunts, present participle avaunting, simple past and past participle avaunted)
- (obsolete) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To depart; to move away.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Coverdale to this entry?)
- (archaic) To vaunt; to boast.
References
- “avaunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French
Alternative forms
Adverb
avaunt
References
- avaunt on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin abante, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ab + ante, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).
Preposition
avaunt
Related terms
- aunz (“before, beforehand”)
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