Definition of "avaunt"

avaunt

/əˈvɔːnt/

interjection
1. (archaic) Begone; depart; used in contempt or abhorrence.
  Quotations
  Zuc. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]
  1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, Act IV, scene i
  In order to exorcise this she-devil, the attendants made circles on the walls with charcoal, within each was written: "Adam, Eve, Lilas, avaunt!"
  1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 114
noun
plural avaunts
1. (obsolete) A vaunt; a boast.
verb
third-person singular simple present avaunts, present participle avaunting, simple past and past participle avaunted
1. (obsolete) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
  Quotations
  But he, the more outrageous and bold, Sternely did bid him quickely thence avaunt
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (obsolete) To depart; to move away.
  Quotations
  That they should not avaunt […] into the dongeon of eternal damnacion.
  1549, Miles Coverdale, transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the New Testament, London: Edward Whitchurche, Volume 2, Jude 21
3. (archaic) To vaunt; to boast.