paravaunt
English
editAdverb
editparavaunt (not comparable)
- (obsolete) perhaps; peradventure
- (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 […]