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adaunting

adaunting is the present participle and gerund of adaunt.

Meaning of adaunt

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...

Questions about adaunting

What is adaunting the present participle and gerund of?
Adaunting is the present participle and gerund of adaunt.

Words near adaunting in the dictionary

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

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