vaunce

English

Etymology

See advance.

Verb

vaunce (third-person singular simple present vaunces, present participle vauncing, simple past and past participle vaunced)

1. (obsolete) To advance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Then tooke the bold Sir Satyrane in hand
     An huge great speare , such as he wont to wield ,
     And , vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights ,
     addrest his maiden-headed shield

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)