Obs.; also 6 advant. [f. AVAUNT adv., but also influenced probably by AVAUNT v.1 1 and ADVANCE v. In sense 3, apparently from the interjectional sense away! be off!]
1. intr. To go or come forward, advance.
c. 1400. Beryn, 1972. Somtyme thowe wolt auaunte, & som tyme wolt arere.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 6. To whom avaunting in great bravery.
2. trans. To raise, ADVANCE.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 246. To knighthode more and more Prowesse avaunteth his corage.
c. 1400. Melayne, 1575. The kynge callede sir lyonelle, And a-vauntede hym full heghe.
1605. [see ADVANT v.2].
3. To be off, go away, depart.
1549. Coverdale, Erasm. Par. Jude 21. That they should not avaunt … into the dongeon of eternal damnacion.
1601. Chester, Love’s Mart., xii. (1878), 83. It causeth them from thence for to auaunt.
