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- verb Present participle of
avaunt .
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Examples
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Andred, false traitor that thou art, with thine avaunting; for all thy boast thou shalt die this day.
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Andred, false traitor that thou art, with thine avaunting; for all thy boast thou shalt die this day.
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Nevertheless, I shall acknowledge to thee my lineage, not for any avaunting but by humility.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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Scripture then, nature, creature, fortune, business and care, avaunting and praising, ought to make us withdraw for to love riches.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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And I have prayed for respite of my martyrdom for to take away from the christian men the fear and dread to die for the faith of Jesu Christ, and to take away from the miscreants the avaunting of my martyrdom.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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My good master Jesu Christ said to a man that demanded of him how he might come to everlasting life, that he should go and sell his goods and give it, and great dread to lose that which he hath so dear and with great pain gotten Sixthly, avaunting and praising, for the riches give occasion to be vain glorious and to praise and glorify himself.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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