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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of avaunt.

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Examples

  • Then Simon Magus, as Hegesippus and Linus say, elate in pride avaunted him that he can raise dead men to life.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • Upon that the provost demanded who was her first husband, of whom she so much avaunted, and in his power so much trusted.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • I avaunted her into a chair with a sickening thud.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • I then, as she did not act upon my suggestion, avaunted her myself.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

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