paravaunt

adv — 2 senses

paravaunt

adv

1

Obsolete perhaps; peradventure

2

Alternative, Obsolete Alternative form of paravant (“pre-eminently, first”).

But that faire one, / That in the midst was placed paravaunt, / Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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