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"Get thee gone!"
Answer for the clue ""Get thee gone!" ", 6 letters:
avaunt
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Word definitions for avaunt in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, n. A vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interjection, late 15c., "begone," literally "move on," from Middle French avant "forward!" (see avant ).
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.