Meanings
verbvaunce (third-person singular simple present vaunces, present participle vauncing, simple past and past participle vaunced)
present singular third person vaunces · participle present vauncing · participle past vaunced · past vaunced
- obsoleteTo advance (various senses).
Then tooke the bold Sir Satyrane in hand An huge great speare , such as he wont to wield , And , vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights , addrest his maiden-headed shield
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Cite this entry
APA
vaunce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaunce
MLA
“vaunce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaunce. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vaunce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaunce.
Source: vaunce on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.