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Webster 1913 Edition

Paravant

{

Par′a-vantˊ

,

Par′a-vantˊ

, }

adv.

[OF.

par avant

. See

, and 1st

.]

1.

In front; publicly.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

2.

Beforehand; first.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Paravant

PAR'AVANT

Definition 2024

paravant

paravant

English

Alternative forms

paravaunt

Adverb

paravant ‎(not comparable)

(obsolete, rare) Pre-eminently; first. [16th-17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
  But that faire one, / That in the midst was placed paravaunt, / Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone […].