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"___, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!": "King John"
Answer for the clue ""___, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!": "King John" ", 6 letters:
avaunt
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Word definitions for avaunt in dictionaries
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 ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avaunt \A*vaunt"\, v. t. & i. [OF. avanter; [`a] (L. ad) + vanter. See Vaunt .] To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.