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provect

provect adjective: mature; advanced (in age).

Adjective

provect (comparative more provect, superlative most provect)

  1. (obsolete) mature; advanced (in age)
    • provect in yeres1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC

Verb

provect (third-person singular simple present provects, present participle provecting, simple past and past participle provected)

  1. To modify by provection

Forms of provect

Adjective
comparativemore provect
superlativemost provect
Verb
third-person singular presentprovects
present participleprovecting
past participleprovected
pastprovected

Origin of provect

From Latin provectus, past participle of provehere (“to carry forward”).

Questions about provect

What does provect mean?
Provect means mature; advanced (in age).
What part of speech is provect?
Provect can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near provect in the dictionary

  1. prove out
  2. proveabilities
  3. proveability
  4. proveable
  5. proveably
  6. provect
  7. provection
  8. provections
  9. provector
  10. provectors
  11. proved

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