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adaunt

adaunt verb: to subdue.

Verb

adaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To subdue.
    • He […] With myghty corrage
      Adauntid the rage
      Of a lyon savage; […]1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349...

Forms of adaunt

third-person singular presentadaunts
present participleadaunting
past participleadaunted
pastadaunted

Origin of adaunt

From Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- + danter.

Questions about adaunt

What does adaunt mean?
Adaunt means to subdue.
What part of speech is adaunt?
Adaunt is a verb.
What is the past tense of adaunt?
The past tense of adaunt is adaunted.

Words near adaunt in the dictionary

  1. adatis
  2. adatom
  3. adatomic
  4. adatoms
  5. adats
  6. adaunt
  7. adaunted
  8. adaunting
  9. adaunts
  10. adaw
  11. adawed

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