enaunter

English

Etymology

From Middle English enaunter, from in, en (“in”) aunter (“adventure”).

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɔːntə/
• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɔːntɚ/

Conjunction

enaunter

1. (obsolete) Lest.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     Anger would not let him speak to the tree, Enaunter his rage might cooled be, But to the root bent his sturdy stroke

   • 1589, Mar Martine, 5, quoted in 1809, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, page 60:

     For men of litrature t'endite so fast, them doth not sitte, / Enaunter in them, as in thee, thair pen outrun thair witt; […]

   • (Can we date this quote?) published in 1946, The Characters of Theophrastus: Newly Edited and Translated by J.M. Edmonds:

     KORITTO: […] For day and night long doth she weare our stone into scrapings, enaunter she pay a grote to set her own.

References

• “enaunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.