paravaunt

English

Adverb

paravaunt (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) perhaps; peradventure
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of paravant (“pre-eminently, first”)
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But that faire one, / That in the midst was placed paravaunt, / Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone […]