renvoy

English

Etymology

French renvoi (noun), renvoyer (verb).

Noun

renvoy (plural renvoys)

1. (obsolete) A sending back.

Verb

renvoy (third-person singular simple present renvoys, present participle renvoying, simple past and past participle renvoyed)

1. (obsolete) To send back or away.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     Not dismissing or renvoying her.

References

• “renvoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.