disavaunce

English

Etymology

Compare disadvance.

Verb

disavaunce (third-person singular simple present disavaunces, present participle disavauncing, simple past and past participle disavaunced)

1. (obsolete) To retard; to repel; to do damage to.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disavaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Verb

disavaunce

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