avaunt

1. archaicBegone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.

   Avaunt, away! the cruel ſway, Tyrannic man's dominion

   1793, Robert Burns, “Song Composed in August (Now Westlin Winds)”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 133

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   Zuc. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]

   1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i

   In order to exorcise this she-devil, the attendants made circles on the walls with charcoal, within each was written: "Adam, Eve, Lilas, avaunt!"

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 114

   He drew Adamcos and waved it at the monkey. “Avaunt, thou goblin!” he cried.

   1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 145

plural avaunts

1. obsoleteA vaunt; a boast.

present singular third person avaunts · participle present avaunting · participle past avaunted · past avaunted

1. obsoleteTo advance; to move forward; to elevate.

   But he, the more outrageous and bold, Sternely did bid him quickely thence avaunt

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. obsoleteTo depart; to move away.

   That they should not avaunt[…]into the dongeon of eternal damnacion.

   1549, Miles Coverdale, transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the New Testament, London: Edward Whitchurche, Volume 2, Jude 21

3. archaicTo vaunt; to boast.