"avaunt" meaning in English

See avaunt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /əˈvɔːnt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avaunt.wav
Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: First used 1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French avant (“to the front”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|fro|avant||to the front}} Old French avant (“to the front”) Head templates: {{en-interj}} avaunt
  1. (archaic) Begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-avaunt-en-intj-seybjJbu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 12 19 9 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 58 8 15 11 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 6 11 8 6

Noun

IPA: /əˈvɔːnt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avaunt.wav Forms: avaunts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: First used 1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French avant (“to the front”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|fro|avant||to the front}} Old French avant (“to the front”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} avaunt (plural avaunts)
  1. (obsolete) A vaunt; a boast. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-avaunt-en-noun--dE7NNSc

Verb

IPA: /əˈvɔːnt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avaunt.wav Forms: avaunts [present, singular, third-person], avaunting [participle, present], avaunted [participle, past], avaunted [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: First used 1275–1325; Middle English, from Old French avant (“to the front”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|fro|avant||to the front}} Old French avant (“to the front”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} avaunt (third-person singular simple present avaunts, present participle avaunting, simple past and past participle avaunted)
  1. (obsolete) To advance; to move forward; to elevate. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-avaunt-en-verb-KtVBA4~9
  2. (obsolete) To depart; to move away. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-avaunt-en-verb-blTw3AQP
  3. (archaic) To vaunt; to boast. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-avaunt-en-verb-RNKvVRBf

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.