avaunt
/əˈvɔːnt
/exclamation archaic
Go away: avaunt, you worm-faced fellows of the night!...
- He led the litany with, ‘Christians, avaunt! ‘and the crowd responded, ‘Epicureans, avaunt!’
- Avaunt, and quit my sight!
- To thee, O Sickness, I say avaunt!
Origin
Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French avant, from Latin ab 'from' + ante 'before'.
Rhymes
- active galaxy
- active immunity
- active layer
- active learning
- active list
- actively
- active mass
- active matrix
- activeness
- active obedience
- active optics
- active-passive
- active roster
- active service
- active site
- active transport
- active voice
- activewear
- activin
- activism
- activist
- activistic
- activity
- activity for daily living
- activity of daily living