The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avaunce
Avaunce \A*vaunce"\ ([.a]*v[add]ns"), v. t. & i. [See
Advance.]
To advance; to profit.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
avaunce
vb. (context obsolete English) To advance; to profit.
Usage examples of "avaunce".
It is nat honeste, it may nat avaunce, For to deelen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and selleres of vitaille.
Som for plesance of folk, and flaterye, To been avaunced by ypocrisye, And som for veyne glorie, and som for hate.