enaunter
English
Etymology
Contracted from in adventure.
Conjunction
enaunter
- (obsolete) lest
- Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
- Anger would not let him speak to the tree, Enaunter his rage might cooled be, But to the root bent his sturdy stroke
- Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 enaunter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)