v. Obs. Also 4–6 vaunse, 6 vance. [Aphetic f. of ADVANCE v.] To advance, in various senses. (Common in the 16th cent.)
a. trans. 1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 5516. Þou art nat wurþy vaunsed to be.
a. 1400. Langl., P. Pl., B. III. 33 (MS. Rawl. Poet. 38). Shal no lewednesse lette þe clerkes þat I louye, That he [ne] worth furst vaunsed.
a. 1450. Myrc, Par. Pr., 1636. Ȝer hyt [i.e., contrition] be gret, ȝeue luyte penaunce. Ȝef hyt be luyte, þow moste hyt vaunce [v.r. haunce].
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., I. xviii. 54. The wyse captayne ought not to putte nor vaunce forth hym and hys men lyghtly to a bataylle.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis (Arb.), 85. Al thogh … winds vaunce fully thy sayls with prosperus huffing.
1594. R. Carew, Tasso (1881), 21. This hardie speech … Gaue ech one care, and vaunst his courage hie.
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., IX. 379. Which embleams hee bid vaunce, for foes to reede of mercie, iustice, death, how hee decreed.
b. refl. c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xiv. 350. He vaunced hym selfe forthe, and caught the kynge wyth bothe hys armes. Ibid., Blanchardyn, xxiii. 77. As blanchardyn … perceyued þe noble pucelle, he dyde vaunce him self toward her.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 616. A picture of an armed Knight on a courser barded Vauncyng himself upon that hill.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 207. But marke the chance, my self to vance, By friendships lot, to Paules I got.
1587. Turberv., Trag. Tales (1837), 41. They vaunst themselves, and stood mee bolt upright.
c. intr. 1544. Betham, Precepts War, I. cxcvii. I vj b. The hoste vauncyng towarde battayl, the capitayne ought to speake these wordes.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 17. Sir Satyrane … vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights.
Hence † Vauncing vbl. sb. Obs.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 56. A how bitter luf and vauncing [L. promotio] … þat he reys his luf at a moment a-boue a veyn þing.
1426. Audelay, Poems (Percy Soc.), 33. Clerkys that han cunnyng, Schuld have monys soule in kepyng, Bot thai mai get no vaunsyng Without symony.
