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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
avaunt .
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Examples
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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
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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
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I avaunted her into a chair with a sickening thud.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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I then, as she did not act upon my suggestion, avaunted her myself.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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