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avaunt

/əˈvɔːnt/

avaunt interjection: begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.

Interjection

  1. (archaic) Begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.
    • Zuc. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i
    • Avaunt, away! the cruel ſway,
      Tyrannic man's dominion1793, Robert Burns, “Song Composed in August (Now Westlin Winds)”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […]...

Noun

avaunt (plural avaunts)

  1. (obsolete) A vaunt; a boast.

Verb

avaunt (third-person singular simple present avaunts, present participle avaunting, simple past and past participle avaunted)

  1. (obsolete) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
    • But he, the more outrageous and bold,
      Sternely did bid him quickely thence avaunt1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To depart; to move away.
    • That they should not avaunt[…]into the dongeon of eternal damnacion.1549, Miles Coverdale, transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the New Testament, London: Edward Whitchurche, Volume 2, Jude 21
  3. (archaic) To vaunt; to boast.

avaunt meaning in Tamil

avaunt in Tamil

விரைந்து செல், போய்விடு, முன்செல்

Forms of avaunt

Noun
pluralavaunts
Verb
third-person singular presentavaunts
present participleavaunting
past participleavaunted
pastavaunted

Origin of avaunt

First used 1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French avant (“to the front”).

Words that rhyme with avaunt

Questions about avaunt

What does avaunt mean?
Avaunt means begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.
What is avaunt in Tamil?
Avaunt in Tamil is விரைந்து செல், போய்விடு, முன்செல். See Avaunt meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is avaunt?
Avaunt can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce avaunt?
Avaunt is pronounced /əˈvɔːnt/.

Words near avaunt in the dictionary

  1. avataric
  2. avatars
  3. Avator
  4. avatrombopag
  5. avaunce
  6. avaunt
  7. avaunted
  8. avaunting
  9. avaunts
  10. avay
  11. avaz

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