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aroynt

aroynt is the alternative form of aroint.

Meaning of aroint

Verb

aroint (third-person singular simple present aroints, present participle arointing, simple past and past participle arointed)

  1. (archaic, imperative, transitive) avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
    • And aroynt thee Witch, aroynt thee.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (archaic) to dispel; to send away.
    • Whiskered cats arointed flee,
      Sturdy stoppers keep from thee
      Cologne distillations.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog

Forms of aroynt

third-person singular presentaroynts
present participlearoynting
past participlearoynted
pastaroynted

Questions about aroynt

What is aroynt the alternative form of?
Aroynt is the alternative form of aroint.

Words near aroynt in the dictionary

  1. arownd
  2. aroyl
  3. aroylation
  4. aroylations
  5. aroyls
  6. aroynt
  7. aroynted
  8. aroynting
  9. aroynts
  10. aroze
  11. arp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aroynt (page history and authors); aroint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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