avaunt

The definition of avaunt is to be gone, leave or depart.

(interjection)

An example of avaunt is what a king would say to a servant to dismiss him from the room.

See avaunt in Webster's New World College Dictionary

interjection

Archaic begone; go away

Origin: ME < OFr avant, forward < LL abante < L ab, from + ante, before

See avaunt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb

Hence; away.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, forward

Origin: , from Old French avant

Origin: , from Latin abante

Origin: : ab-, from; see ab-¹

Origin: + ante, before; see ante-

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