ppl. a. Also 4–5 -avanced, 5 -avaunced. [UN-1 8.] Not advanced or promoted; not pushed forward.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 205. If it is along on me Of that ye unavanced be,… The sothe schal be proved nou.

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1411–2.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 5274. So manny a worthi clerk famouse, In Oxinford, and in Cambrigge also, Stonde vnavanced.

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1491.  Act 7 Hen. VII., c. 12. Preamble. His Highnes … entendith to provyde … his children unavaunced to be preferred.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 832. In the meane time … matters stood stil altogether vnaduanced.

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1741.  T. Robinson, Gavelkind, App. Qq iv b. The youngest Son … was the Child, if any, left unadvanced at the Death of his Father.

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1856.  Olmsted, Slave States, 367. Young men … unadvanced beyond the lowest knowledge of the elements of primary school learning.

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1892.  Pall Mall G., 26 Sept., 3/3. Both advanced and unadvanced members of unincorporated societies.

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