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vaunce

vaunce verb: to advance (various senses).

Verb

vaunce (third-person singular simple present vaunces, present participle vauncing, simple past and past participle vaunced)

  1. (obsolete) To advance (various senses).
    • Then tooke the bold Sir Satyrane in hand
      An huge great speare , such as he wont to wield ,
      And , vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights ,
      addrest his maiden-headed shield1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of vaunce

third-person singular presentvaunces
present participlevauncing
past participlevaunced
pastvaunced

Origin of vaunce

See advance.

Questions about vaunce

What does vaunce mean?
Vaunce means to advance (various senses).
What part of speech is vaunce?
Vaunce is a verb.
What is the past tense of vaunce?
The past tense of vaunce is vaunced.

Words near vaunce in the dictionary

  1. vaultman
  2. vaultmen
  3. vaults
  4. vaultworthy
  5. vaulty
  6. vaunce
  7. vaunced
  8. vaunces
  9. vauncing
  10. vaunt
  11. vaunt-courier

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