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avaunting

avaunting is the present participle and gerund 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 avaunting

What is avaunting the present participle and gerund of?
Avaunting is the present participle and gerund of avaunt.

Words near avaunting in the dictionary

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

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