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English
Etymology
From Old French avancer (“to move forward”).
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Pronunciation
Verb
avaunce (third-person singular simple present avaunces, present participle avauncing, simple past and past participle avaunced)
- (obsolete) To advance; to profit.
1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:And so besechyng you, to take on you the defense of this booke, to auaunce the good that may come of it by your allowance and furtherance to publike vse and benefite...
References
- “avaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avaunce”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.