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avaunted

avaunted is the simple past and past participle of avaunt.

Meaning of avaunt

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.

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Questions about avaunted

What is avaunted the simple past and past participle of?
Avaunted is the simple past and past participle of avaunt.

Words near avaunted in the dictionary

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

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