Archaic begone; go away
Origin of avaunt
Middle English from Old French avant, forward from Late Latin abante from Classical Latin ab, from + ante, beforeavaunt
a·vaunt
interjection
The definition of avaunt is to be gone, leave or depart.
An example of avaunt is what a king would say to a servant to dismiss him from the room.
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avaunt
adverb
Hence; away.
Origin of avaunt
Middle English forward from Old French avant from Latin abante ab- from ; see ab- 1. ante before ; see ante- .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Interjection
- (archaic) Begone; depart; a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."
Verb
(third-person singular simple present avaunts, present participle avaunting, simple past and past participle avaunted)
Origin
1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French avant (“to the front”).
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