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-
Example Sentences
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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
He said with emphasis, as clearly as barking could say it, "Acrid-quack, avaunt!"
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Let us not linger there too long, and from this scene I bid avaunt to the coarse cynical reader; who is too strong-minded to believe in love.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Some folk have been clearly rid of such pestilent fancies with very full contempt of them, making a cross upon their hearts and bidding the devil avaunt.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
English we regularly find avaunt, which comes from Old Fr. avanter, to put forward, from avant, before.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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