disadvance

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verb

To draw back, pull back.

OriginMiddle English disavauncen ← Old French desavancer →
First used 14th–17th c.Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbdisadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)

present singular third person disadvances · participle present disadvancing · participle past disadvanced · past disadvanced

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo draw back, pull back.First known use 14th–17th c.

    Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.

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

Origin

  1. Old Frenchdesavancer
  2. Middle Englishdisavauncen
  3. Englishdisadvance

From Middle English disavauncen, from Old French desavancer.

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