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Avaunce
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avaunce
avaunce
English
Verb
avaunce (third-person singular simple present avaunces, present participle avaunceing, simple past and past participle avaunceed)
- (obsolete) To advance; to profit.
- 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue line 246
- It is nat honeste, it may nat avaunce, / For to deelen with no swich poraille, / But al with riche and selleres of vitaille.
- 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue line 246
References
- avaunce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914