Crossword clues for avaunt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, v. t. & i. [OF. avanter; [`a] (L. ad) +
vanter. See Vaunt.]
To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\ ([.a]*v[add]nt" or [.a]*v[aum]nt"), interj. [F. avant forward, fr. L. ab + ante before. Cf. Avant, Advance.] Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase ``Get thee gone.''
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, v. t. & i.
To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [Obs.]
--Spenser.To depart; to move away. [Obs.]
--Coverdale.
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, n.
A vaunt; to boast. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interjection, late 15c., "begone," literally "move on," from Middle French avant "forward!" (see avant).
Wiktionary
interj. (context archaic English) begone; depart; a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone." n. (context obsolete English) A vaunt; a boast. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To advance; to move forward; to elevate. 2 (context obsolete English) To depart; to move away. 3 (context archaic English) To vaunt; to boast.
Usage examples of "avaunt".
But then, avaunt, you ghost, back to the orifice, back and avaunt, avaunt, I say!
The yellow-eyed antlered man rode laughing dreadfully, crying out the avaunt that rallies hounds on the full chase, and his brilliant, white-gold horse flung forward with mane and tail flying.
Evil thrift come to your jaws, And eke to mine, if I it grant, Or do favour you to avaunt.
If you are bidden avaunt, come back and cheer us old people with your brightness.
In "The Court of Love," the poet says of Avaunter, that "his ancestry of kin was to Lier.
He stared with a stunned, avaunting lust which her exuberant prudishness both redirected and inflamed to new strength.
Fie upon thee, said Sir Andred, false traitor that thou art, with thine avaunting.