Meanings
adverbparavaunt (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteperhaps; peradventure
- alternativenot comparableobsoleteAlternative form of paravant (“pre-eminently, first”).
But that faire one, / That in the midst was placed paravaunt, / Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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