Meanings
- obsoleteLest.
Anger would not let him speak to the tree, Enaunter his rage might cooled be, But to the root bent his sturdy stroke
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC2 more examples
For men of litrature t'endite so fast, them doth not sitte, / Enaunter in them, as in thee, thair pen outrun thair witt; […]
1589, Mar Martine, 5, quoted in 1809, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, page 60KORITTO: […] For day and night long doth she weare our stone into scrapings, enaunter she pay a grote to set her own.
published in 1946, The Characters of Theophrastus: Newly Edited and Translated by J.M. Edmonds
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishenaunter
- Englishenaunter
From Middle English enaunter, from in, en (“in”) aunter (“adventure”).
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