单词 | paravant |
释义 | † paravant, -aunt, adv. Obs. [a. OF. paravant adv. and prep., ‘before’ in time or place, f. par ‘through, by, be-’ + avant before:—L. *abante from before. In mod. F. retained only in the archaic paravant que before that, and the compound auparavant before, in time, formerly. The latter has heaped up successive elements, until it has, for the expression of the simple L. adv. ante, the representatives of ad illud per ab ante.] Before; in front; before the rest, pre-eminently.
1590Spenser F. Q. iii. ii. 16 Tell me some markes by which he may appeare, If chaunce I him encounter paravaunt. 1595― Col. Clout 941 Yet that I may her honour paravant, And praise her worth, though far my wit above. 1596― F. Q. vi. x. 15 But that faire one, That in the midst was placed paravaunt. |

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