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• D'Avenant
  D'Avenant

  noun

  Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
• Davenant
  Davenant

  noun

  Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)

D'Avenant

American  

[dav-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdæv ə nənt /

Or Davenant

noun

1. Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.

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Davenant British  

/ ˈdævənənt /

noun

1. Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)

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Example Sentences

Sir William D’Avenant, the author of the comedy, complained to the king of this exercise of the censorship, and His Majesty, after reading the play for himself, negatived the decision of the licenser.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

Scott, Southey, and Byron have taught us this freer scope of invention, but characterised by a depth of passion which is not found in D’Avenant.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

D’Avenant had rejected the marvellous from his poem—that is, the machinery of the epic: he had resolved to compose a tale of human beings for men.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Such gossip possibly deserves little more acceptance than the later story, in the same key, which credits Shakespeare with the paternity of Sir William D'Avenant.

From Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems by Johnson, Jesse

It is delightful to believe the story told by Bishop Newton, that D’Avenant owed his life to Milton; Wood, indeed, attributes our poet’s escape to both; at the Restoration D’Avenant interposed, and saved Milton.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac