vaward
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vaward
1325–75; Middle English, variant of va ( u ) mwarde, vantward, aphetic for avantward < Anglo-French avantwarde, equivalent to avant ( see avaunt) + warde < Old English weard ward
Example Sentences
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Unbanner your bright locks,—advance Girl, their gilded puissance, I' the mystic vaward, and draw on After the lovely gonfalon Us to out-folly the excess Of your sweet foolhardiness; To adventure like intense Assault against Omnipotence!
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
It is true that in other places he represents himself as old, and again in another states that he and his accomplices in the Gadshill robbery are in the vaward of their youth.
From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine
Where's now their victor vaward wing, Where Huntly, and where Home?
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
The Duke of York so dread The eager vaward led; With the main Henry sped Among his henchmen.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Where's now their victor vaward wing, Where Huntly, and where Home?
From Marmion by Morley, Henry
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