avaunt
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of avaunt
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French avant to the front < Late Latin ab ante before ( Latin: from before). See ab-, ante-
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“Did anybody see which way he went? What an exciting day, what? Sa sa cy avaunt, cy sa avaunt, sa cy avaunt!”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
For if he yaf, he dorstë make avaunt, He wistë that a man was repentaunt.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
But yet avaunt, packe hence foule filthy fire, Wring out some teares to quench this cursed flame No otherwise the daughter-like require Thy fathers loue, that blazons on thy shame.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller
And where there are a Laurel and a Rose, Beneath whose branches wide a broode doth haunt; The whom high walls and fretted gates enclose, Where goode may enter, badde are bidde avaunt.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
The waterfalls gleam fresh and cool in the glen: avaunt there, you non-possessors; you shall never see them!
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen
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